Norway sees hurdles to helping destroy Syrian chemical arms


  • World
  • Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway is considering a U.S. request to help destroy Syria's chemical arms but lacks expertise, equipment and storage sites for the final waste, the new foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Washington asked Norway's former Labour-led government last month to help destroy some of Syria's chemical arsenal in a deal brokered with Moscow after an August 21 attack in the suburbs of Damascus killed 1,400 people.

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