The team appointed to oversee the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons says the Syrian government has been fully cooperating with them.

Bashar al Assad's regime agreed to take part in the dismantling programme after international condemnation of a chemical attack on civilians in August, for which his government was widely blamed.

Inspections so far have been conducted at 17 sites - at 14 of these sites inspectors carried out activities related to the destruction of critical equipment.

The team aims to have eliminated the chemical weapons programme by the first half of 2014.

Sigrid Kaag, is leading the OPCW-UN joint mission - she spoke to reporters in Damascus about the progress her team has been making: