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From left, President Barack Obama, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin. After years of estrangement, the United States and Russia are joined as partners in a bold plan to rid Syria of chemical weapons.
Syria has disclosed the information on its chemical weapons program that was expected under an agreed Saturday deadline, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said.
The disclosure is a crucial stage in the process that should lead to the weapons’ destruction. Syria is believed to possess about 1,000 metric tons of toxins, and has agreed to destroy them under a joint Russian-U.S. proposal designed to avert a U.S. military strike on Syria.
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A Free Syrian Army fighter rests in Ashrafieh, Aleppo September 21.
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“The Technical Secretariat is currently reviewing the information received,” a statement on the OPCW website said.
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Free Syrian Army fighters eat and read while resting on al-Arbaeen mountain in the Idlib countryside September 20.
The chemical weapons watchdog’s core members are due to vote — probably next week — on a plan aimed at fast-tracking the destruction of Syria’s stockpiles of chemical arms by mid-2014.
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The plan emerged after a U.S. threat to attack Syria and intense international diplomacy after a poison gas attack killed hundreds of civilians on the outskirts of Damascus last month.
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