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“Syria is transferring its chemical weapons to international control because of Russia,” he said in an interview the Rossia 24 television channel. “The threats of the United States had no influence on the decision to put the weapons under [international] control.”
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The interview came as John Kerry, the US Secretary of State (Witness Protection Program Candidate), arrived in Geneva for talks with Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, on Syria's chemical weapons.
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American officials said the key test of the talks was a mechanism that guaranteed Damascus would make a quick declaration of its stockpile before putting it under supervision and out of use.
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America has indicated to its allies that it is ready to concede that a UN Security Council resolution can be adopted under Chapter 6 of the UN Chapter. That is a less punitive regime than Chapter 7 which authorizes the use of force to impose its terms.
"The US is ready for a resolution that does not have the use of force included because it is determined to ensure the UN demonstrates Syrian culpability for chemical weapons attacks," the official said.
US officials said that a deal with Russia UN was "doable but difficult" and told reporters that they would seek to ensure that Damascus could be locked into a timeline for comprehensive disarmament.
The rebel Free Syrian Army has categorically denied the Russian proposal for placing the chemical weapons stock under international control, dismissing it as a "political man oeuvre aimed at buying time".
The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war.
The arms are being delivered as the United States is also shipping new types of nonlethal gear to rebels. That aid includes vehicles, sophisticated communications equipment and advanced combat medical kits.
The latest effort to provide aid is aimed at supporting rebel fighters who are under the command of Gen. Salim Idriss, according to officials, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because part of the initiative is covert. Idriss is the commander of the Supreme Military Council, a faction of the disjointed armed opposition.
U.S. officials decided to expand nonlethal assistance to Syria’s armed rebels after they delivered more than 350,000 high-calorie U.S. military food packets through the Supreme Military Council in May. The distribution gave U.S. officials confidence that it was possible to limit aid to select rebel units in a battlefield where thousands of fighters share al-Qaeda’s ideology, U.S. officials said.
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