{"id":17513,"date":"2018-01-07T07:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T07:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17513"},"modified":"2018-01-07T07:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T07:09:34","slug":"libyas-last-chemical-weapons-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/libyas-last-chemical-weapons-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya\u2019s last chemical weapons destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Experts in Tripoli monitor a November 2012 operation to dispose of Libyan chemical weapons. (AFP)<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN: Germany said it has completed the destruction of components from the chemicals weapons program of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.<br \/>\nThe international community had feared the 500 tons of chemicals could fall into the hands of extremist groups or rogue states after Qaddafi was deposed in 2011 and the country fell into chaos.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_20180107-122936_01-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_20180107-122936_01-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_20180107-122936_01-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_20180107-122936_01-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_20180107-122936_01.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nGermany\u2019s Foreign and Defense Ministries said that the chemicals were destroyed \u201csuccessfully and in an environmentally sustainable manner\u201d by a state-owned specialist firm, GEKA, which is based in Munster, south of Hamburg.<br \/>\nLibya made a formal request to the UN-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons last year for international assistance to have the chemical weapons removed.<br \/>\nThe cost of destroying the chemicals was shared by Germany and the US.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts in Tripoli monitor a November 2012 operation to dispose of Libyan chemical weapons. (AFP) BERLIN: Germany said it has completed the destruction of components from the chemicals weapons program of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. The international community had feared the 500 tons of chemicals could fall into the hands of extremist groups or [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17516,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions\/17516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}