United Nations, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) The OPCW/UNO joint mission for the dismantling of Syria”s chemical weapons confirmed today the third extraction of dangerous agents through the port of Latakia, and will be destroyed on the high sea.
According to a press release circulated here, the materials were placed on a Norwegian cargo ship, escorted by other ships from Norway, Russia, China and Denmark.
The United Kingdom will join the flotilla in international waters, while Finnish experts included in the operation, said the OPCW and the United Nations, in charge of supervising jointly the dismantling process.
The Joint Mission created last year also said that simultaneously to the extraction, chemical materials are being destroyed in Syrian territory.
June 30 is the deadline set by the Security Council to finish the whole process, which has undergone delays in the phase of withdrawing the dangerous agents from the Arab country, due to the conflict that has been affecting it for almost three years.
That United States and its allies are taking advantage of that scene to put pressure on and threaten Damascus, although the OPCW/UN Joint Mission, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Russia consider that it is possible to overcome the delays and meet the deadline.
Last week, Syria denounced those pressures, which it called unfair, due to the internal situation, characterized by violence generated by irregular extremist mercenary groups, armed from abroad to overthrow constitutional President Bashar al-Assad.
