The UK will help destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile by incinerating over 150 tonnes of chemicals used in the production of deadly nerve agents such as sarin and VX gas over the next three months.
Announcing the contriution, the Foreign Office stressed that the chemicals, which will be unloaded at a British port equipped to handle such material, were "industrial-grade" compounds of the sort used in the pharmaceutical industry and will be "handled similarly to many other chemicals that are routinely manufactured, transported and destroyed in the UK".