Syria has handed over a detailed plan to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile on time.
"On 24 October 2013, the Syrian Arab Republic submitted to the OPCW its formal initial declaration covering its chemical weapons program," the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement on Sunday.
Damascus was required to submit the destruction plan under a joint US-Russia deal agreed last month that headed off military strikes on Syria.
The accord also gives Syria up to mid-2014 to destroy its chemical arsenal.
President Bashar al-Assad's regime has already handed over an inventory of its chemical weapons and facilities, and international inspectors are busy inspecting and destroying them.
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Syria's latest disclosures "provide the basis on which plans are devised for a systematic, total and verified destruction of declared chemical weapons and production facilities", said OPCW, which won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
"The document from Syria includes a general plan of destruction for consideration by the OPCW executive council."
The OPCW's executive council will use the Syrian declaration to decide by November 15 on "destruction milestones" for Syria's arsenal.
