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Updated at 10.32am BST 9.10am BST OPCW in Syria The OPCW's inspectors have been in Syria since 1 October to provide what the organisation calls "verification and destruction activities".

Theheadquarters of the OPCW in The Hague.

Previous fact-finding missions by the OPCW in Syria have pointed to the use of chlorine and mustard gas.

But so far, no Mediterranean port has agreed to host the transfer on land, say weapons experts briefed on the plan by the OPCW in The Hague.

A spokesman for the Office of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague confirmed that Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, had contacted it with a request for technical assistance.

Opinion seems to be either that Malala Yousafzai should have won, or that it is silly to honour the OPCW in a year when a large number of people died in a chemical weapons attack.

Samples would then be sent to the OPCW center in The Hague in the Netherlands, which may distribute them to its network of 20 or so certified labs in the United States, Europe, and Asia for confirmation.

"Never before has an entire arsenal of a category of weapons of mass destruction been removed from a country experiencing a state of internal armed conflict," Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, said in a statement issued at the group's headquarters in The Hague.

The OPCW, based in The Hague, declined to comment but said it would be issuing a statement on Friday.

The OPCW announced in June that all identifiable agents and precursor chemicals had been removed from the country.

Updated at 12.43pm BST 12.36pm BST Asked about the Syrian mission, Üzümcü reiterates that a main challenge remains the safety and security of OPCW teams in that country.