Syria: Italian port will host transshipment of chemical weapons

Danish and Norwegian vessels that will carry the load will be escorted by a frigate and a cruiser.

But the operations are delayed â€" due to logistical and security issues â€" only 16 of the 560 tons of mustard gas and primary agents for the manufacture of Sarin and VX were placed aboard the Danish ship at the port of Syrian Latakia.

But who are not happy are the Italians from Calabria. Many raise voices of concern, as a group of politicians who gathered in front of the Parliament in Rome to protest because of the risks of transhipment operation. It seems so collapse the chance the base of Lajes in the Azores to be involved in the operation, as before it was reported.

Despite the long delays, the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to keep the end of June as the deadline for the completion of the process.

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