DHAKA: Germany said on Thursday it had accepted a UN request to destroy remnants of Syria’s chemical weapons on its own soil as part of a bid to eliminate the arsenal by June 30.

‘The government decided following a request by the UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that Germany is prepared to make a substantial contribution to the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons,’ the foreign and defence ministries said in a joint statement, reports The Straits Times.

‘The government is willing and able to destroy in Germany remnants created in the course of irreversibly neutralising chemical weapons from Syria and which resemble industrial waste.’

BDST: 1808 HRS, JAN 09, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor