"Of course, all of this will
only mean anything if the United States and other nations supporting it tell us
that they're giving up their plan to use force against Syria. You can’t really
ask Syria, or any other country, to disarm unilaterally while military action
against it is being contemplated," President Putin said on Tuesday.
President Putin said that the matter
of bringing Syria’s chemical weapons under international control has long been
a subject of discussion by experts and politicians.
Putin confirmed that he and
President Barack Obama had “indeed discussed” such a possibility on the
sidelines of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg last week.
It was agreed, Putin said, “to
instruct Secretary of State [John Kerry] and Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov]
to work together and see if they can achieve some progress in this
regard."
President Putin’s comments came
shortly after the Syrian government said it would agree to place its chemical
weapons arsenal under international control.
source rt.com
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