(06.10.) A joint team of United Nations and international inspectors today began to oversee the process of dismantling and destroying Syria‘s chemical weapons production programme, it was announced.

The team oversaw Syrian personnel who used cutting torches and angle grinders to destroy or disable a range of items, including “missile warheads, aerial bombs and mixing and filling equipment,” the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a press release.