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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-07-28
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[01] Two sailboats on their way to Syrian chemical weapons destruction
ship, off Crete
[01] Two sailboats on their way to Syrian chemical weapons destruction
ship, off Crete
ANA-MPA -- Two of a flotilla of three boats were on Sunday heading
towards "Cape Ray", the ship where the destruction of Syria's chemical
weapons by hydrolysis is taking place by international agreement,
to protest the action taking place in the Mediterranean Sea.
A total of three boats left the southern Aegean island of Crete to look
for the Cape Ray - two sailboats leaving from Chania and a boat leaving
from Paleochora - on Friday afternoon. The Paleochora boat ("Agios
Nikolaos") returned to port because of adverse conditions at sea,
while the other two were 127 nautical miles off western Crete at 2:00
p.m. on Sunday.
There are 22 individuals on the sailboats and they plan to leave protest
banners on buoys to protest the hydrolysis and ask that the Mediterranean
be kept clean and free of chemicals.
Passengers on all boats included mayors and labour centre
representatives. In statements on Friday, SYRIZA deputy Michalis
Kritsotakis, one of the passengers, called the destruction "an
environmental crime for which our government pretends it knows nothing,
allowing the process to take place."
It is expected that the two sailboats boats will cover about 200 nautical
miles southwest of Crete to reach the Cape Ray, or a total of 28 hours
from the time they left port.
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