(Source: China Military Online) 2014-02-18
The picture shows that the guided missile frigate “Huangshan” of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLAN) is ready for departure. (Chinamil.com.cn/Li Jianhong and Shao Longfei)
ZHANJIANG, February 18 (ChinaMil) -- A taskforce of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLAN), which will take over the guided missile frigate “Yancheng” to implement the naval escort missions for the ships transporting Syria’s chemical weapons, departed a military port in Zhanjiang of south China’s Guangdong province at 16:00 on February 17, 2014 for the Mediterranean Sea.
Leaders including Wei Xueyi, chief of staff of the South China Sea Fleet of the PLAN, and Li Yang, deputy director of the Department of Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, were at the pier to see off the taskforce.
This is the first time for the South China Sea Fleet to dispatch its surface warship to implement the naval escort missions for the ships transporting Syria’s chemical weapons.
The taskforce consists of the guided missile frigate “Huangshan”, a shipboard helicopter and a total of over 200 personnel including some special operation members from a destroyer flotilla under the South China Sea Fleet of the PLAN.
The guided missile frigate “Huangshan”, a new-type guided missile frigate independently developed and made by China, once implemented the second and thirteenth naval escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and waters off the Somali coast, according to sources.
Since January 7, 2014, the guided missile frigate “Yancheng” has successfully fulfilled three naval escort missions for the ships transporting Syria’s chemical weapons, making positive contributions to safeguarding world peace and security and winning comprehensive praises from international community.
Editor:Zhang Tao
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