Syria Chemical Weapons Destruction In Germany

Germany has said it will help destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile on home soil to assist international efforts to end the almost three-year conflict.

The country's foreign and defence ministries said they had accepted a request from the United Nations to help destroy some of the waste material from Syrian chemical weapons at a facility in the northern city of Munster.

"The government decided following a request by the UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that Germany is prepared to make a substantial contribution to the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons," the ministries said in a joint statement.

Speaking in Berlin German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: "Nobody who possesses the technological capabilities required can really refuse.

"The destruction of chemical weapons could be the first decisive step towards enabling a de-escalation of the Syrian conflict."

Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen added: "Germany has safe technology and a lot of experience with destroying remnants of chemical arms. It is sensible for us to use this capability for the sake of the international community and with it, make a worthy contribution to the peace process." 

Under the terms of the agreement, the weapons will first be destroyed onboard a ship at sea. The remnants left by the process will then be transported to the Munster facility. 

Syria's conflict has been ongoing for nearly three years

The first shipment of toxic chemicals was loaded onto a Danish cargo vessel in the Syrian port of Latakia on Tuesday.

Last month Sky News reported that the UK had also volunteered to destroy 150 tonnes of two industrial-grade chemicals. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office stressed that "chemicals, not chemical weapons" would be incinerated in the UK.

The Syrian government agreed to hand over its chemical arsenal last September as part of a deal brokered by the United States and Russia to rid Syria of its chemical arsenal by June 30.

Syria submitted to the deal following US threats of military invention in the wake of a sarin gas attack outside Damascus, which US authorities said left more than 1,400 people dead.

According to UN estimates more than 100,000 have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al Assad began in March 2011. More than two million people have fled the country, many to neighbouring Jordan and Lebanon.

On Thursday, at least 16 people were killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb was detonated near a school in Syria's central Hama province, state media reported. The Britain-based opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, put the death toll at 18.

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