The UN, on Thursday in Beirut, said the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons would cost between 35 and 40 million euros.
Sigrid Kaag, the Coordinator of the UN
and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in charge
of dismantling Syria’s chemical stockpiles, said “this is because the
operation is very expensive.
“The operation is not cheap at all but we hope it will save lives in the future.’’
Syria agreed to dispose its chemical weapons by June under a Russian-US deal.
Kaag said on Tuesday that the first
batch of Syria’s chemical weapons was at the Syrian port of Latakia on a
Danish ship, ready for destruction.
He said the Dec. 31 deadline for
shipping the first chemical consignment out of Syria was missed as a
result of ongoing crisis, bad weather and bureaucracy.
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