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It sounds like they are inviting international cooperation and investigators to help them take care of it, so it should be real

An international taskforce backed by the United States, ⁠Germany, Britain, Canada and France, among others, will track down all remaining elements of the program and destroy ​them under the supervision of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Syria's ambassador to the United ​Nations, Ibrahim Olabi, said in an interview.

As many as 100 sites in Syria need to be inspected to determine what toxic munitions remain and how they should be destroyed, OPCW experts have said.

It will require a time-consuming and costly operation to prevent the ​proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in a region fraught with conflict and political turmoil. The expanding U.S.-Israeli war ​on Iran and broader regional security concerns will make the timing of the mission uncertain, but all the more necessary ‌to prevent ⁠future use, officials said.