Nota gambar diambil pada 5
Januari 2014, dan dikeluarkan oleh Angkatan Tentera Norway, kapal sokongan
Denmark L17 " Esbern Snare “pada latihan dengan HNoMS frigat Norway” Helge
Ingstad “di laut Mediterranean sebagai persediaan untuk mengiringi penghantaran
lewat ini Syria bahan kimia untuk dimusnahkan. (AFP
Photo/Lars Magne Hovtun – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
“Kapal ini telah diiringi oleh
pengiring tentera laut disediakan oleh Denmark dan Norway, serta Republik Arab
Syria,” kata bunyi kenyataan itu. “Ia akan kekal di laut menunggu ketibaan
bahan-bahan kimia keutamaan tambahan di pelabuhan itu.”
Walaupun pemerhati antarabangsa
yang disebut dikeluarkan tangan2 sebagai “bahan-bahan kimia keutamaan”, yang
datang dari “2 tapak”, ia tidak menjelaskan berapa banyak ia dimuatkan ke
kapal komersial Denmark.
Antara senjata yang penuh
dengan senjata yang akan diangkut akan ada beberapa 20 tan ejen saraf sawi. Ia
bertujuan bahawa senjata dimusnahkan di luar negara dari zon perang.
Satu kenyataan OPCW diterbitkan
pada 15 November menggariskan rancangan untuk kemusnahan bahan kimia. Selepas “paling
kritikal” bahan kimia dikeluarkan, semua bahan-bahan kimia yang lain - tidak
termasuk minyak berasaskan tumbuhan (bahan utama dalam pengeluaran sarin) -
akan dibawa keluar dari negara ini dengan 5 Februari. “dimemusnahkan disusun, :berjalan
menurut satu” kriteria berasaskan risiko.”
Tarikh akhir awal untuk
mengambil konsainan kimia pertama daripada Syria telah ditetapkan pada 31
Disember, yang bermaksud kapal Norway dan Denmark terpaksa kembali ke pelabuhan
di Cyprus seminggu yang lalu. Sebab-sebab dinamakan kelewatan adalah “cuaca,
peperangan, dan birokrasi,” menurut seorang pegawai OPCW.
Petikan daripada bahan kimia
melalui perairan antarabangsa yang mahu dilindungi melalui peruntukan ‘pengiring
tentera laut’ dari Rusia, Denmark , Norway dan China.
Syria bersetuju untuk
kemusnahan senjata kimia dengan Jun melalui janji rundingan dengan Rusia, yang
dimatikan niat Washington untuk menggunakan kekerasan ketenteraan terhadap
Syria. Perjanjian itu diikuti serangan gas sarin pada 21 Ogos bahawa
negara-negara barat menuduh Presiden Bashar Assad di mendalangi. Syria
mengatakan bahawa pemberontak bertanggungjawab bagi penggunaan bahan kimia.
Sebuah kapal Amerika Syarikat,
kapal kargo MV Cape Ray bersedia untuk belayar ke pantai Itali, di mana ia akan
menerima beban untuk memusnahkan di perairan antarabangsa. Kerja sebenar yang
mungkin boleh mengambil 45 hari di bawah keadaan yang ideal, tetapi misi itu
kini dijangka berlangsung kira-kira 90 hari kerana cuaca buruk .
Rusia, dan juga menyediakan
kapal perang pengiring, Pyotr Veliky , telah menghantar 75 trak perisai ke
Syria dan memperuntukkan $ 2 juta pada dana dan kelengkapan lain yang akan
digunakan untuk proses penghapusan senjata kimia, Menteri Pertahanan Rusia
Sergey Shoigu berkata pada 23 Disember.
Kerajaan Syria adalah memikul
tanggungjawab untuk memastikan bahawa senjata kimia dengan selamat dibungkus
dan dihantar ke pelabuhan - termasuk laluan mereka melalui kawasan di mana
pemberontak yang kekal aktif.
First
batch Of Chemical Weapons leaves
Syria - OPCW . . .
The first batch of Syrian
chemical weapons has left the Syrian port of Latakia on a Danish ship "for
international waters", the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons said in a statement.
"The vessel has been
accompanied by naval escorts provided by Denmark and Norway, as well as the
Syrian Arab Republic," the statement reads. "It will remain at sea
awaiting the arrival of additional priority chemical materials at the
port."
Though the international
watchdog referred to the removed arms as "priority chemical
materials", which came from "two sites", it did not elaborate
how much of it was loaded onto the Danish commercial vessel.
Among the full arsenal of
weapons to be transported will be some 20 tons of mustard nerve agent. It is
intended that the weapons be destroyed abroad away from the war zone.
An OPCW statement published on
November 15 outlined the plan for the destruction of the chemicals. After the
“most critical” chemicals are removed, all other chemical substances –
excluding isopropanol (a key ingredient in the production of sarin) – will be
taken out of the country by February 5. The “sequenced destruction,” runs
according to a “risk-based criterion.”
The initial deadline for taking
the first chemical consignment out of Syria was set for December 31, meaning
Norwegian and Danish ships were forced to return to port in Cyprus a week ago.
The reasons cited for the delay were “war, bad weather and bureaucracy,”
according to an OPCW official.
The passage of the chemicals
through international waters is being safeguarded through the provision of
‘naval escorts’ from Russia, Denmark, Norway and China.
Syria agreed to the destruction
of its chemical weapons by June through a deal brokered by Russia, which
defused Washington’s intention to use military force against Syria. The deal
followed a sarin gas attack on August 21 that western nations accused President
Bashar Assad of orchestrating. Syria says that rebels were responsible for the
use of chemical agents.
A US vessel, the cargo ship MV
Cape Ray is prepared to set sail for the coast of Italy, where it will receive
the load to destroy in international waters. The actual work could probably
take 45 days under ideal conditions, but the mission is now expected to last
about 90 days because of bad weather.
Russia, as well as providing an
escort warship, Pyotr Veliky, has sent 75 armored trucks to Syria and allocated
$2 million in funds and other equipment to be used for the chemical weapons
elimination process, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on December
23.
The Syrian government is
shouldering the responsibility of ensuring that chemical weapons are safely
packaged and delivered to the port – including their passage through areas in
which rebels remain active.
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