Albania rejects Syria weapon request
AAP
November 16, 2013 6:21AM
THE AUSTRALIAN
ALBANIA has rejected a US request to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, with Prime Minister Edi Rama saying his country is not in a position to do so.
The refusal is a setback for international efforts aimed at ensuring the destruction of Syria's stockpile.
Rama's announcement came on the day that the organisation verifying the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons was meeting to approve a plan submitted by Damascus.
In a nationally televised address, Rama said that his country had, in principle, initially responded favourably to the request from the United States.
But he added that Albania had neither the technology to destroy chemical weapons nor facilities for their transportation.
Earlier Friday, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) met in The Hague to discuss the Syrian government plan.
The proposal being considered by the 41-member executive body of the OPCW foresees that most of the arsenal, including mustard gas and sarin, will be shipped out of Syria.
Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands, who is leading the joint United Nations-OPCW mission, said her team in Syria was working in extreme security situations in an active war zone, noting the risks to their safety.
Since early October, when the United Nations and the OPCW started their chemical disarmament operation in the war-torn country, 22 of a total of 23 chemical weapons sites declared by Syria have been verified.
All facilities for producing such arms and for filling chemicals into munitions have been destroyed, according to the OPCW.
The Hague-based watchdog announced on October 31 that Syria had destroyed all its declared equipment for the production of chemical weapons ahead of a November 1 deadline.
The destruction of the equipment was the first step towards eliminating Syria's arsenal of banned weapons by mid-2014, under a September UN Security Council resolution backed by the US and Russia.
The OPCW was in October awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee citing the organisation for "its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.
"More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011, the UN estimates, when peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad's regime were repressed by force and quickly descended into civil war.
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