Tuesday 1 July 2014

US ship arrives in Italy port for Syria weapons

The MV Cape Ray is escorted by tug boats as it arrives at Gioia Tauro port, southern Italy, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Syria's acknowledged stockpile of chemical weapons has been handed over to Western governments for destruction. 1300 tons of chemical weapons are currently on the Danish cargo ship Ark Futura and are expected be transferred to the U.S.-owned MV Cape Ray at Gioia Tauro. The Cape Ray, equipped with two titanium reactors, will then move into international waters to neutralize Syria's stockpile of sulphur mustard and the raw components for making sarin nerve gas over the next two months. Other materials will be disposed of at toxic wastes sites in various countries. (AP Photo/Adriana Sapone) GIOIA TAURO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. ship MV Cape Ray sailed into the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro on Tuesday to handle the unprecedented transfer and destruction of about 1,300 tons of Syrian chemical weapons.




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