Syria chemical weapons 'could be destroyed at sea'

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Syria's over 1,000 tonnes of chemical weapons could be destroyed at sea if no country agrees to dispose of them on its soil, the world's chemical watchdog said Wednesday. "This possibility has been looked at for some time already," Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) spokesman Christian Chartier told AFP of destroying the chemicals at sea. The world is in agreement about destroying Syria's chemical weapons as part of a US-Russia deal aimed at heading off strikes on the Damascus regime after deadly chemical attacks in August. But despite consensus on destroying the chemicals outside war-wracked Syria, no country has yet been found ready to have them destroyed on its soil.

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