We are proud of the success of our destruction programme, which has destroyed more than 60 per cent of our chemical weapons, including 100 per cent of binary weapons, which were our most modern and advanced chemical weapons; 100 per cent of our former chemical weapons production facilities; and more than 96 per cent of all nerve agents.
These movements included the removal of the entire declared stockpile of sulphur mustard, commonly known as "mustard gas", on 26 February 2014, as well as significant quantities of binary chemical weapons material.
The United States of America is providing a destruction technology for priority chemicals on board the MV Cape Ray and is also supplying nearly 3,000 container drums of various capacities, providing GPS trackers, loading, transportation, and decontamination equipment. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will destroy the key binary chemical weapon components B and BB at a commercial facility.
Mr. Assad also told Mr. Annan that they would not be used except in the case of foreign invasion, the diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic delicacy of the topic. The Syrian leader had said that the weapons had not been mixed yet, so that anyone who captured them would have to know how to combine them. The weapons are considered "binary," meaning that they do not become lethal until they are mixed.
According to chemical weapons expert Jonathan Tucker, the first binary formulation developed under the Foliant programme was used to make Substance 33 (VR), very similar to the more widely-known VX, differing only in the alkyl substituents on its nitrogen and oxygen atoms.
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