Syria Must Give up Last Chemical Arms

Denmark’s foreign minister on Tuesday urged Syria to give up the last of its chemical weapons agents within days to meet a June 30 deadline for completely ridding the war-torn country of its lethal stockpile.

 

Martin Lidegaard said there are “serious security problems” concerning the last 16 containers, some of which have agents used to create deadly VX and Sarin nerve gases.

 

But he said these problems can be resolved and the Syrian government needs to make that a priority.

 

“That is the clear message to the Syrian government that we expect them to deliver the last containers as soon as possible, hopefully within days,” Lidegaard told The Associated Press aboard a Danish cargo ship used to ferry the agents out of Syria.

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