London, Oct. 4 (ANI): A United Nations team given the task of eliminating Syria's chemical weapons has said it has made encouraging initial progress after talks with government officials.
The experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Syrian documents handed over on Wednesday looked promising.
The team said analysis of technical diagrams would be necessary and more questions remain to be answered, the BBC reports.
Onsite inspections and arms disabling are scheduled to start next week.
The experts said they wanted to verify the information handed over by the Syrian government, adding that their next priority was to ensure the inspection teams' safety and security.
According to the report, Syria believed to possess more than 1,000 tonnes of chemical agents and pre-cursor chemicals, including blister agent, sulphur mustard and sarin nerve agent.
A second group of inspectors is expected to join the mission in Syria within a week.
Nineteen disarmament experts had arrived in Syria on Tuesday to implement a UN resolution requiring the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal by mid-2014, the report said.
One of the key areas they are working on is to make practical arrangements for destroying chemical weapons material and equipment, it added. (ANI)
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