LONDON
UK's Foreign Office announced on Friday that Britain will give additional support to destroy Assad's chemical weapons.
An FCO spokesperson stressed, "As part of our contribution, we have agreed to destroy 150 tons of two industrial-grade chemicals from the Syrian stockpile at a commercial facility."
FCO stated that the international mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons was essential to ensure that Assad couldn't to use chemical weapons to murder his own people again.
Spokesperson added that alongside the UK, other countries included US, Russia, China, Denmark, Norway and Finland would be playing their part in this international mission in the coming up term.
It was added that chemicals known as "B precursors" were handled similarly to many other chemicals which are routinely manufactured, transported and destroyed in the UK and explained, "The chemicals only become highly toxic when mixed with an 'A precursor' to make a nerve agent. To eliminate this risk, the A and B precursors will be removed from Syria separately."
Stating that the chemicals will be shipped to a UKport, will then be transferred to a commercial site to be destroyed by incineration.
The FCO noted, the mentioned chemicals were not "chemical weapons" and that they "do not contain explosives".
The UK is already providing £2 million to the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Syria Trust Fund to assist with destruction and verification activities.
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