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    US to neutralize Syria's poison gas aboard ship

    By Agencies in Amsterdam, the Hague, the Netherlands | China Daily | Updated: 2013-12-02 07:26

    The United States has offered to destroy Syrian chemicals on a US ship, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Saturday, and is looking for a suitable Mediterranean port where processing can be carried out.

    The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been under pressure to find an alternative plan for the destruction of Syria's poison gas arsenal after Albania backed out of hosting the work.

    The OPCW said 35 firms had expressed an interest in bidding for commercial contracts by Friday's deadline for the treatment of about 800 tons of bulk industrial chemicals that are safe to destroy in commercial incinerators.

    But another 500 tons of chemicals, including nerve agents, are seen as too dangerous to import into a country or process commercially, and will be treated offshore on the US ship.

    "The neutralization operations will be conducted on a US vessel at sea using hydrolysis," the OPCW said in a statement.

    "Currently, a suitable naval vessel is undergoing modifications to support the operations and to accommodate verification activities by the OPCW," the watchdog based in The Hague added.

    OPCW spokesman Michael Luhan declined on Saturday to name the navy vessel to be used.

    "The US has offered to contribute a destruction technology, full operational support and financing to neutralize Syria's priority chemicals," the OPCW statement said.

    The OPCW, which won the Nobel Peace prize last month, has been given the task of overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stocks under an agreement that averted US missile strikes.

    It followed a sarin gas attack on the outskirts of Damascus in August, which killed hundreds of people.

    Sigrid Kaag, head of the joint UN-OPCW Syria team, said on Saturday the mission faced a challenge to get the most lethal chemical agents out of Syria by the end of the year target amid a civil war that has killed 100,000 people.

    "But we are working to make sure we can meet all the deadlines," she told reporters in Damascus at the end of a week of talks with Syrian officials.

    She said the chemicals, located at various sites across Syria, would be packed, sealed and transported to the Mediterranean port of Latakia.

    Reuters-AFP

    (China Daily 12/02/2013 page12)

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