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How will Syria's chemical weapons be destroyed?

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The global chemical weapons watchdog has adopted a roadmap for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons by mid-2014. However, where they will go to be destroyed remains unclear. Albania, a Nato member which dismantled its own arsenal in 2004, has refused to take on the task. No apparent country is equipped to jump in. RFI asked Samer Abboud, a Syrian expert and scholar in Philadelphia in the United States, whether weapon destruction should be the focus as violence continues to riddle the fragmented country.

Albania's Prime minister Edi Rama rejected on Friday a US request to host the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, dealing a blow to a US-Russian accord to eliminate the nerve agents from the country's protracted civil war.
Albania's Prime minister Edi Rama rejected on Friday a US request to host the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, dealing a blow to a US-Russian accord to eliminate the nerve agents from the country's protracted civil war. Reuters/Arben Celi
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