Syria 'still holds chemical weapons'
Al-Huriya News Agency - The head of the task force in charge of eliminating Syria's chemical weapons says Damascus still holds about 7.5% of its 1,300-tonne stockpile at one site.
Envoy Sigrid Kaag urged the Syrian government to meet a Sunday deadline to remove its arsenal from the country. All Syria's chemical weapons are scheduled to be destroyed by 30 June.
The Russian-US deal to eliminate Syria's arsenal was drawn up last year after hundreds of people died in a sarin rocket attack outside Damascus.
The multinational mission to get rid of the weapons is overseen by the UN Security Council and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
"The biggest bulk of the chemical weapons material is removed but not yet destroyed and that counts towards the 30 June deadline. That's why it's so important to get the remainder of the chemical weapons material that is still in one site," Ms Kaag, the head of the OPCW, told the BBC.
She also said the UN was concerned by recent reports that Syrian forces had used chlorine gas as a weapon.
Chlorine was not a substance included in the deal, which is widely seen as having averted US military action against the Syrian government.
