Arsenali Kimik i Sirise te shkaterrohet ne Shqiperi?

[King_Gentius]

Cka mendim keni per kte propozim te SHBAse qe armet kimike Siriane te shkaterrohen ne Shqiperi? Qeveria nuk ka shpallur vendim akoma. Personalisht them jo. Ne nuk kemi zona te gjera te pa-banuara (si Siberia) pra nuk kemi vend per ndonje aksident, sado dollare te jen gati te paguajne per shkaterrimin e armeve.


Syria’s chemical arsenal: Albania’s next dirty job?
The United States is turning to Albania again, hoping it will allow Syria’s chemical weapons to be destroyed on its soil.


By Shashank Bengali
Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — For years, when the United States has needed to hand off a dirty diplomatic chore, one obscure nation has reliably raised its hand: Albania.

A poor sliver of a country clinging to the edge of Europe, Albania took in ethnic Uighur prisoners from Guantánamo Bay when the United States couldn’t repatriate them to China. It offered asylum to 210 members of the Mujahedin Khalq, the Iranian dissident group long confined to a camp in Iraq.

Now the United States is turning to Albania again, hoping it will allow Syria’s chemical weapons to be destroyed on its soil.

The Obama administration’s request to Albania, confirmed by government officials in Tirana last week, aims to resolve one of the thorniest questions surrounding the U.S.-sponsored plan to disarm Syria’s lethal arsenal of sarin, VX and mustard gas.

With a civil war raging in Syria, President Bashar Assad wants his weapons — including 1,300 tons of chemical agents and precursors, and 1,200 tons of unfilled munitions — destroyed outside the country. The head of the international watchdog agency overseeing the disarmament has said removing the materiel from Syria “remains the most viable option.”

The United States is leading the search for a country to take in the toxic stockpile. But few nations have been eager to volunteer for a task that could provoke domestic opposition, create security and environmental challenges, and cost tens of millions of dollars.

Another country that U.S. officials asked to handle the job, Norway, has refused. And Danish officials said Friday that their country was willing to help transport weapons from Syria by sea, but not destroy them. Albanian officials said they were considering the request.

“There have been some positive signals from Albania, but it is a very sensitive issue there,” said a European official with knowledge of the talks but who was not authorized to speak publicly because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Albania has experience with chemical weapons. In 2007, with extensive U.S. technical and financial help, the coastal Balkan nation became the first country to destroy its arsenal under the Chemical Weapons Convention, the international treaty banning the production and use of the weapons.

But after years of importing nonhazardous waste from richer neighbors such as Italy — a scheme that produced thousands of jobs and millions in revenue — Albanians decided they no longer want to be Europe’s garbage dump. A new socialist government in Tirana recently imposed a ban on waste imports after a two-year campaign by environmental activists led to a referendum on the issue.

There also are serious questions about Albania’s ability to secure dangerous materials. In 2008, an explosion at a munitions depot outside the capital, where old artillery shells were being dismantled, killed 26 people and injured 300.

Polls rank Albania, with an overwhelming majority of Muslims, among the most pro-American nations. The sentiment dates to President Woodrow Wilson, who backed Albanian independence after World War I, and was strengthened during the 1999 NATO military campaign in Kosovo, a majority ethnic Albanian region that later declared independence from Serbia.

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