Sigrid Kaag, head of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Mission charged with ridding the munitions from Syria, speaks to Syrian Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar Ja'afari at the UN headquarters in New York, on March 5, 2014. The special coordinator overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria said on Wednesday that the end-of-June deadline for the total destruction of the program was still achievable. (Xinhua/Niu Xiaolei) |