Syria May Miss Chemical-Arms Surrender Date: UN Official

Syria may miss the deadline set by the United Nations Security Council and an international watchdog group to surrender all its chemical weapons by the end of June, the UN official coordinating the effort said.

Violence in the area near Damascus where the last of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical arsenal is stored is making it “difficult” to complete the mission, Sigrid Kaag, special coordinator of the joint effort by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said in an interview yesterday at UN headquarters in New York.