Syria: Aborted the first stage of evacuation of chemical weapons

Expired this Tuesday the deadline for the completion of the first stage of the evacuation of the most dangerous chemical weapons from Syria, without which the operation has been completed.

The Norwegian vessels which should carry the weapons returned to Cyprus for lack of safety conditions for the transport of chemical arsenal to the port of Latquia.

The UN and the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) had already admitted the possibility of delaying the operation. The deadline for the evacuation of chemical weapons from Syria remain, however, unchanged. By the end of June the operation expected to be completed.

On the ground, the war intensifies. The Organization Doctors of the world speaks of more than 500 dead victims of the bombing in Aleppo, in the last two weeks.

According to the Syrian Observatory for human rights, since the beginning in 2011, the conflict has already claimed 130 thousand lives, seven thousand of them children. .

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