Disarmament experts from the international chemical weapons watchdog have begun destroying Syria’s arsenal, a monitoring official has told the BBC.
The team is working under the terms of UN resolution
The operation is being carried out by a team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The mission was established under a UN resolution passed after agreement between Russia and the US.
The resolution followed international outrage at a chemical weapons attack near Damascus in August.
The attack, estimated to have killed hundreds of people, was blamed by the United States and other Western powers on the regime of Bashar al-Assad. But he accuses Syrian rebels of being behind it.
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