Syria still has chemicals to make enough nerve agent to replicate last August's deadly attack outside Damascus "many times over", Britain has warned.
Britain's deputy delegate to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is charged with destroying President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons, on Thursday accused Syria of delaying the destruction of its chemical weapons.
Damascus has so far handed over more than 92 per cent of its arsenal.
"Syria continues to possess approximately 100 metric tonnes of material" at one site, the delegate told a meeting of the OPCW's Executive Council, according to a copy of the briefing seen by AFP.
"The site contains all the precursors needed to produce nerve agent and sufficient material to replicate, many times over, the incident in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21 last year," the delegate said.
The sarin nerve gas attack in rebel-held Ghouta killed about 1400 people.
Damascus agreed to hand over its chemical arsenal after the US threatened airstrikes against Assad in response.
Under the terms of the UN-backed and US-Russia brokered deal, Syria's government has agreed to give up its entire stock of deadly chemicals by April 27, after missing several key deadlines.
Danish and Norwegian ships are to take the chemicals to a US ship for destruction at sea, along with sites in Finland, the US and Britain, by June 30.
Britain on Thursday accused Syria of "holding up the next steps of transportation, transhipment, unloading and ultimately destruction".
Syria told the OPCW that it has been unable to complete the handover of its chemicals because of ongoing fighting in the war-wracked country.
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