Clearing Syria of chemcial weapons?

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New York (CNN) -- A U.N. official has a message for those worried about chemical weapons in Syria: A plan is in motion to do something about them.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is in the capital of Damascus this week to sort out the plan for the destruction of 12 facilities used to make chemical weapons, Sigrid Kaag said Wednesday.

Kaag, the special adviser overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical stockpiles, addressed the Security Council on Wednesday, according to Gary Quinlan, the Australian ambassador to the United Nations and head of the council.

He relayed that plans to destroy seven hangers and five underground tunnels are to start later this month and are to be completed in the summer of 2015,

The OPCW team is also in consultations to draw up plans for the destruction of chemical weapons facilities that were previously not disclosed by the Syrian government, including a ricin production facility, Quinlan said.

In October, Kaag informed the Security Council that there were four chemical weapons sites previously undisclosed, including one production facility.

"There are additional sites that we've become aware of since the initial declaration of production facilities," Quinlan told reporters after the meeting. "So now the question is: sorting out, in Damascus, precisely what is done with those.

"As I said, there's an OPCW team in Damascus right now which is looking at a range of these sorts of issues."

Quinlan made clear that all disclosed chemical weapons had been removed from the country and 98% of the declared chemical materials, which amounts to more than 1,300 tons, had been destroyed.

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Clearing Syria of chemcial weapons?