British Minister for Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood said Wednesday his country completed the destruction of 190 tonnes of the Syrian chemical weapons under the supervision of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

As previously announced, the UK agreed to destroy approximately 15 percent of the total declared Syrian chemical stockpile in commercial facilities, according to a statement by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The entire stockpile of one category of chemicals, known as "B precursors", along with a smaller volume of hydrochloric acid also from the Syrian chemical weapons programme, arrived in Britain three weeks ago.

The chemicals were then transferred to the High Temperature Incinerator operated by Veolia at Ellesmere Port, where they have been destroyed, under the verification procedures of the OPCW), ending the company's involvement in this task.

"The work at Ellesmere Port is part of international efforts involving destruction facilities in the USA, Finland and Germany and with support from many other states and the OPCW,” Ellwood said