Sea possible alternative if no host country found for Syria’s CW destruction: OPCW

Albania,Belgium and Norway have declined to host the destruction process already.

Written by PTI
The Hague,netherlands | November 20, 2013 05:54 PM IST

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A spokesman for the global chemical weapons watchdog says destroying Syria’s stockpile of poison gas and nerve agents at sea is a possible alternative to finding a country willing to host the destruction.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons aims to destroy some 1,300 metric tons of Syrian toxic agents by mid-2014,but the plan was dealt a blow last week when Albania rejected a US request to host destruction. Authorities in Belgium and Norway also have ruled those countries out as locations for the risky operation.