{"id":81047,"date":"2014-04-21T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T09:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=81047"},"modified":"2014-04-21T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T09:58:05","slug":"syria-on-track-to-meet-april-deadline-for-chemical-weapons-disposal-opcw-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=81047","title":{"rendered":"Syria on track to meet April deadline for chemical weapons disposal, OPCW says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syrian-army-marching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-81045\" alt=\"Syrian-army-marching\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syrian-army-marching.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syrian-army-marching.jpg 638w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syrian-army-marching-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syrian-army-marching-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a>Syria has destroyed a majority of its chemical weapons material, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The OPCW also said Saturday that the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is now on track to complete the disposal of the country&#8217;s chemical weapons in the next few days. If that happens, Syria would meet the deadline set by the OPCW for the destruction of the weapons before the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Syria submitted to the OPCW a revised proposal for its chemical weapons disposal with a deadline at the end of April. That revised deadline proposal followed a February report by the OPCW that the country had shipped out just 11% of its weapons stockpile for disposal, falling far short of a February 5 deadline to have all such weapons removed.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Assad agreed to get rid of all of Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons last fall to avoid a possible U.S. military strike against the regime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria has destroyed a majority of its chemical weapons material, the Organisation for the Prohibition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}