Italian
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A seguito di una Risoluzione del Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, le armi devono essere distrutti entro la metà del 2014.
English
Italian Port Chosen as Transfer Point for Syrian Chemicals
The
southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro, one of the busiest in Europe,
will be the transfer point for hundreds of tons of the most deadly
Syrian chemical weapon compounds en route to their neutralization at
sea, the organization responsible for helping oversee the destruction of
the arsenal announced on Thursday.
Ahmet
Uzumcu, the director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons, made the announcement in Rome after a hearing in
Parliament on Italy’s role in the multinational effort that has been
underway since October to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons
munitions. The first load of the most dangerous weapons was placed
aboard a Danish vessel in the Syrian port of Latakia last week.
The
organization is collaborating with the United Nations to dismantle
Syria’s chemical weapons. Syria agreed to renounce their use and sign
the global treaty that bans them last September after an international
uproar over an Aug. 21 sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of people
in a Damascus suburb. The Syrian government and the insurgents seeking
to topple President Bashar al-Assad accused each other of
responsibility.
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Under
a United Nations Security Council resolution, the weapons must be
destroyed by the middle of 2014.
Safely extricating the chemicals from
Syria amid a civil war is considered the most dangerous part of the
operation.
Officials
had said Italy was likely to be the transfer point for moving the
chemicals from the Danish vessel to an American naval ship, the Cape
Ray, that has been assigned to render 560 tons of them harmless in
international waters. But the precise port where the transfer would be
carried out was not publicly announced by Mr. Uzumcu until Thursday.
In a statement
on the organization’s website, Mr. Uzumcu said Gioia Tauro had been
selected because it specialized in ship-to-ship transfers of cargo.
“Transloading the chemicals onto the Cape Ray in a port facility will
greatly improve the safety and security of the operation,” the statement
said.
Mr.
Uzumcu also thanked Italy, saying its contributions “exemplify the
spirit of cooperation underpinning the vitally important international
effort to rid Syria of chemical weapons.”
Gioia Tauro, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea
on the toe of the country’s boot, is an important container port and
transit point situated along a maritime route between Gibraltar and the
Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest.
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