UN: First chemicals have left Syrian port

UN: First chemicals have left Syrian port

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A United Nations diplomat says the first batch of Syrian poison gas precursor chemicals has been loaded onto a Danish cargo ship and taken out of the war-torn country. The announcement today by Sigrid Kaag that the raw materials had been loaded onto the ship at Syria’s Latakia port marked a belated but crucial step in the international operation to rid President Bashar Assad of his declared chemical weapons program by mid-year.