MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is ready to contribute some $2 million to the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, the Kommersant business daily said Friday citing a Russian diplomatic source.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed Thursday that the government of the war-torn country met the November 1 deadline for “the functional destruction of critical equipment at all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities.”
The ambitious Russia-US-brokered deal to avert foreign military intervention in Syria envisions the complete elimination of Syrian arsenals of chemical weapons by mid-2014.
The Russian source cited by the Kommersant newspaper said the Syrian stockpiles could be destroyed in Albania. Aside from a $2-mln donation, Russia is willing to provide transport for delivery of Syrian chemical weapons to that country, the source said.
Russia’s contribution to the destruction of Syrian chemical arsenals will most likely be on the agenda of talks between Special Coordinator of the UN-OPCW mission in Syria, Sigrid Kaag, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Moscow on Friday.
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