Syria has completed the destruction of its equipment for producing chemical weapons, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Thursday.

"The government of the Syrian Arab Republic has completed the functional destruction of critical equipment for all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities and mixing/filling plants, rendering them inoperable," the OPCW said on its website.

The OPCW, which won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, is overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal under a Russian-American brokered deal in which Damascus agreed to destroy all of its chemical weapons.