THE HAGUE: The world’s chemical watchdog said on Thursday that 90 per cent of the global chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed, calling it a “major milestone”.

The stockpiles included caches containing chemicals needed to make deadly nerve agents like sarin, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said.

“This is a major milestone that shows we are well on the way to ridding the world of chemical weapons,” OPCW director Ahmet Uzumcu said in a statement, issued from the OPCW’s Hague-based headquarters. round 63,000 metric tons of declared chemical weapons, mostly from US and Russian arsenals, have now been destroyed OPCW acting spokesman Peter Sawczak said.

Published in Dawn, May 29th, 2015

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