{"id":45065,"date":"2014-07-15T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=62d17090b41968dabc9193bfe72b4291"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:48:00","slug":"news-story-uk-receives-syrian-chemicals-for-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45065","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK receives Syrian chemicals for destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The chemicals will be destroyed at specialist chemical waste facilities in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>A Government Spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The chemicals which are being delivered today are handled, transported and destroyed by British industry safely and on a routine basis.  The plans for their destruction in the UK result from the extraordinary united effort of the international community in coming together, first to force Assad to give up his chemical stockpile, then, despite constant obstruction and delay from Damascus, to remove that stockpile from Syria for destruction overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK can take pride in its contribution, offering specialised industrial facilities capable of safely destroying a significant proportion of the overall stockpile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The operation has been overseen by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations, and many nations, including Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, the United States, Russia and China, have or will play key roles.  <\/p>\n<p>The chemicals, packed in standard containers, are being delivered to Marchwood by the Danish ship Ark Futura.  Inspectors from the OPCW are on hand to verify the delivery of the shipment, and experts from the chemical industry will now prepare the materials for onward transportation to the commercial plants where they will be destroyed. <\/p>\n<p>The UK is accepting 150 tonnes of \u201cB\u201d precursors from the Syrian chemical stockpile, and 50 tonnes of the industrial chemicals hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride, for destruction. The \u201cB\u201d chemicals are industrial grade chemicals, not chemical weapon agents. \u201cB\u201d precursors only become highly toxic when mixed with an \u201cA\u201d precursor to make a nerve agent. No \u201cA\u201d material is coming to the UK.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Read our previous stories about this issue on gov.uk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-contributes-to-the-destruction-of-syrias-chemical-stockpile\">UK contributes to the destruction of Syria\u2019s chemical stockpile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/removal-of-syrian-chemical-weapons\">Removal of Syrian chemical weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/hms-montrose-begins-journey-home\">HMS Montrose begins journey home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial grade chemicals, intended by Syria for the production of chemical weapons, are being unloaded at Marchwood Port in Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}