[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, GLOBAL: "Italy names Calabrian port for chemical transfers" - Local community opposes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Italy names Calabrian port for chemical transfers

By COLLEEN BARRY and PAOLO SANTALUCIA
Associated Press
January 16, 2014

ROME - The southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro will be the site for  
the transfer to a U.S. ship of chemical weapons materials from Syria,  
Italy's transport minister told a parliamentary commission on Thursday.

The first load of materials for poison gas and nerve agents currently  
are aboard a Danish ship, and Italy has agreed to serve as the  
transfer port to the U.S. cargo vessel Cape Ray for eventual  
destruction at sea - all part of international efforts to rid Syria  
of chemical weapons.

Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi said a total of 60 containers of the  
material will be transferred ship-to-ship at the port in Calabria,  
near the toe of the Italian boot, "following international standards  
and in absolute secure conditions." None would be brought to shore,  
he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/01/16/5585882/opcw-syria-security- 
concerns-slows.html

See also
http://www.opcw.org/news/article/trans-loading-of-syrian-chemicals-to- 
be-undertaken-at-port-of-gioia-tuaro-in-italy/
and
http://www.opcw.org/news/article/germany-to-destroy-effluent-from- 
syrian-chemicals/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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