The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW) said in the document its teams had inspected 21 out of 23
chemical weapons sites across the country.
The other two were too dangerous to inspect, but the chemical
equipment had already been moved to other sites which experts
had visited, it said.
"The OPCW is satisfied it has verified, and seen destroyed,
all declared critical production, mixing, filling equipment from
all 23 sites," the document said.
Al Jazeera's Omar Al Saleh, reporting from Istanbul, said "by
November 1, Syria will no longer have the capacity to make new
chemical weapons, bringing an end to phase one and phase two".
"Phase three will last to June 2014 and will involve United
Nations mission support to monitor all destruction of 1,000
tonnes of chemical weapons. The UN/OPCW has no mandate to
destroy them so a UN member state will have to provide technical
and operational support.
"But also, we have to be a bit suspicious about the
second phase as this is what Syria has declared, and see that
other states will agree with Syria on the amount it said it has.
Other countries may have their own intelligence," our
correspondent said.
Under a Russian-American arranged deal, Damascus agreed to
destroy all its chemical weapons after Washington threatened to
use force in response to the killing of hundreds of people in a
sarin attack on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21.
The United States and its allies blamed Assad's forces for
the attack and several earlier incidents. The Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad has rejected the charge, blaming rebel brigades.
Under the disarmament timetable, Syria was due to render
unusable all production and chemical weapons filling facilities
by November 1 - a target it has now met.
By mid-2014 it must have destroyed its entire stockpile of
chemical weapons.
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