THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The world’s chemical weapons watchdog mentioned Friday that each one declared shares had been “irreversibly destroyed” after the United States revealed it had lastly removed its final poisonous arms.
President Joe Biden introduced that the Blue Grass Army Depot, a US Army facility in Kentucky, had eradicated its decades-old shares, finishing a worldwide effort began in 1997 to rid the world of chemical weapons.
“The end of destruction of all declared chemical weapons stockpiles is an important milestone”, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) chief Fernando Arias mentioned in an announcement.
The Hague-based physique mentioned that the step by the United States, the “last possessor state”, meant that “all declared chemical weapons stockpiles (were) verified as irreversibly destroyed”.
But current use of chemical weapons meant the world nonetheless needed to be on guard, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning OPCW warned.
The watchdog has in recent times blamed Syria for finishing up chemical assaults throughout its civil warfare, and investigated the usage of Soviet-era nerve brokers towards a former Russian spy in Britain and Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny in Russia.
“Recent uses and threats of use of toxic chemicals as weapons illustrate that preventing re-emergence will remain a priority for the organization,” Arias cautioned. — Agence France-Presse
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