Weapons of mass destruction

The head of the Hellenic League for Human Rights, Constantinos Tsitselikis, has written to the European Commission to ask for Brussels to take action to prevent the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons in the sea off Crete.

Iran nuclear talks entered Thursday the decisive, dangerous endgame with a final round of hardball negotiations potentially going all the way to a July 20 finish line.
      

Turkey is to help a U.N. program to destroy Syrian chemical weapons in the Mediterranean Sea by sending a frigate, Turkish army officials have said.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has said it is not fully satisfied with the process of elimination of the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal in a written statement, claiming the Syrian government has yet to destroy all of its facilities.

Turkey will continue to follow the developments with regard to the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria, the ministry said on June 27.  

Last batch of Syrian chemical weapons delivered for neutralisation

The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons have been shipped from the war-torn country and are en route for destruction at sea, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said on Monday.
      

Chemical weapons such as chlorine have been used in a "systematic manner" in Syria, according to an initial report by a team from the world's watchdog investigating alleged attacks in the war-torn country.

The destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal will not be completed before a June 30 deadline agreed after Washington threatened air strikes last year, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said.

An April 27 deadline for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons to international monitors also expired with Damascus holding around eight percent of its declared material.

Hundreds of people gathered in Sfakia, Crete, on Sunday to protest against the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons in the Mediterranean.

The demonstration, attended by hundreds of people, was timed to coincide with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reportedly starting the process of destroying the weapons.

Ship and crew prepared to neutralise Syria's chemical arsenal