Libya destroys 3,300 non-operational chemical warheads

THE HAGUE (AFP) Mar 04, 2004
Libya has completed the destruction of 3,300 non-operational chemical warheads under international supervision, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced Thursday.

The exercise took place between last Friday and this Wednesday, said the OPCW, based in The Hague.

Libya decided in January to adhere to the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, the treaty overseen by the OPCW, after announcing in December that it would renounce the development of weapons of mass destruction.

Last month Tripoli sent the OPCW a provisional inventory of its chemical weapons stock, and plans to send a full on Friday.

The Chemical Weapons Convention calls for the destruction of all such weapons as well as the capacity for developing them.

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