Albania Refuses Request To Destroy Syria's Chemical Weapons

Albania Rejects Request to Host Destruction of Syrian Chemical Weapons -- New York Times

LONDON — Albania became the second nation after Norway on Friday to turn down an American request to host facilities for the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, dealing a blow to Washington’s efforts to find a country prepared to undertake the politically sensitive disarmament project.

But officials at the international chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague, debating a Syrian blueprint for the destruction of 1,300 tons of toxic munitions, said the decision by the authorities in Tirana, the Albanian capital, would not directly derail their efforts to meet a deadline on Friday to endorse the plan.

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