CRI听力:Syria Urged to Meet Weapons Handover Deadline

The leader of the UN mission in charge of destroying Syria's chemical weapons has called on the Syrian government to meet a deadline to destroy all of its toxic chemicals.

Sigrid Kaag of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says 92.5 percent of Syria's chemical materials have been removed from the country.

"We are talking basically of the remaining seven and a half, eight percent of chemicals weapons material that currently still in country in one particular site. Six and a half, roughly, needs to be removed, a small percentage is to be destroyed regardless in country that can be done."

The remaining stockpiles of declared chemical weapons are in a dozen lorry containers, in a location near Damascus that the government says is unreachable due to fighting.

Kaag says the UN is also looking into recent reports of chlorine gas attacks in the country.

Syria has not declared chlorine under its disclosures to the OPCW.

The country is expected to hand over its entire arsenal by the end of this week.

All its chemical weapons are scheduled to be destroyed by the end of June.

The plan comes from a Russia-US deal to eliminate Syria's arsenal after hundreds died in a sarin attack last year.

A U.N-led inquiry has found that chemical weapons were likely used in five attacks last year, although it did not apportion blame.