United Nations Chemical weapons watchdog, the Organization for prevention of Chemical weapons, OPCW has said that Syria’s declared equipments for producing, mixing and filling chemical weapons has been entirely destroyed. The UN security Council had set a deadline of November 1 for the international watchdog to destroy the chemical weapons production facility in Syria.

A joint team of UN chemical weapons inspectors and OPCW experts is in Syria to oversee the elimination of Syria’s weapons of mass destruction by Mid-2014. Syria gave a list of 41 chemical weapons production and related facilities at 23 sites to the joint team. The team verified the information provided by Syria at 37 of the 41 facilities. Simultaneously the team disabled the chemical weapons production facility so that it can’t be used again.

According to OPCW estimates, Syria had more than 1000 tonnes of Sarin, Mustard and VX gases among the chemical agents and over 1200 unfilled munitions at these sites. However, the joint UN -OPCW team couldn’t visit two sites because of security risk. The next step is to eliminate the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile by the middle of next year.