DHAKA: Danish and Norwegian vessels left the Cypriot port of Limassol on Friday and headed towards Syria to escort a delayed shipment of chemical weapons for destruction.

A spokesman said, reports The Straits Times.

‘The Norwegian-Danish task group to transport Syria’s chemical agents to destruction left the port of Limassol this morning,’ said Norwegian armed forces spokesman Lars Magne Hovtun.

‘The four ships have now set a course toward a holding area in international water outside Syria, so we are most ready to enter the port of Latakia when the order arrives,’ he added.

The ships are to be joined by Chinese and Russian vessels inside Syrian waters under a plan agreed in Moscow on Friday.

BDST: 1842 HRS, JAN 03, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor