Syria will miss the UN-backed June 30 deadline to destroy its chemical arsenal, possibly by several months, sources said Thursday, amid growing Western frustration with Damascus’ perceived delays.
With just 11 percent of Syria’s chemicals out of the country after a series of missed deadlines, an Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) meeting on Friday will hear calls for Syria to do more.
 “The Syrians said they could complete getting the agents out of the country by the end of May, that’s unacceptable,” said the source.
The UN Security Council on February 6 called on Syria to move faster, transporting chemicals and agents to Latakia “in a systematic and sufficiently accelerated manner”.
Western diplomats at an OPCW Executive Council meeting last month expressed frustration with the repeatedly delayed process, accusing Syria of unilaterally changing the June 30 destruction deadline into a deadline for the chemicals to have left the country.