US receives Russian plan to take control of Syrian chemical weapons

“We have handed over to the Americans our plan for establishing international control over Syria’s chemical weapons and we hope to discuss it in Geneva,” said a source in the Russian delegation that will accompany Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov during his consultations with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

At the same time Russia has reportedly passed to the UN Security Council evidence of Syrian rebels being behind the use of chemical weapons in the counter,“ we submitted to the UN SC documents that prove that the chemical weapons were used by opposition forces,” Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Aleksandr Zasypkin told Al Mayadeen channel, reports RIA Novosti.

Meanwhile on Wednesday in New York, envoys from the five permanent UN Security Council member states – the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia – met to discuss the Russia proposed plan as well as try to come up with common language for a UN resolution to support it.

source rt.com