"Important Milestone": Watchdog Says World's Chemical Weapons Irreversibly Destroyed
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President Joe Biden announced that the Blue Grass Army Depot, a US Army facility in Kentucky, had eliminated its decades-old stocks, completing a global effort started in 1997 to rid the world of chemical weapons.
The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Friday that all declared stocks had been "irreversibly destroyed" after the United States revealed it had finally got rid of its last toxic arms.
President Joe Biden announced that the Blue Grass Army Depot, a US Army facility in Kentucky, had eliminated its decades-old stocks, completing a global effort started in 1997 to rid the world of chemical weapons.
"The end of destruction of all declared chemical weapons stockpiles is an important milestone", Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) chief Fernando Arias said in a statement.
