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Syria said Tuesday it has accepted Russia’s proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday after meeting with Russian parliament speaker that his government quickly “agreed to the Russian initiative.”
Al-Moallem added that Syria did so to “uproot U.S. aggression.”
His statement sounded more definitive than his remarks Monday, when he said that Damascus welcomed Russia’s initiative.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that Russia is now working with Syria to prepare a detailed plan of action, which will be presented shortly.
Lavrov said that Russia will then be ready to finalize the plan together with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
President Barack Obama said Monday the Russian proposal could be “potentially a significant breakthrough,” but he remained skeptical that Syria would follow through.
5 Comments on "Syria Accepts Russian Weapons Proposal"
BillT on Tue, 10th Sep 2013 2:10 pm
Now the ball is in ‘Os’ court. The world is against him and the Empire. The Empire’s citizens are against another war. Will he be stupid … ?
DC on Tue, 10th Sep 2013 4:45 pm
Now watch the US squirm as it finds a way to declare this move ‘insufficient’. You can already sense how the US war-mongers are pissed off.
Now they will either need find a way to ignore this move, or create a new false flag attack.
Like the phantom Iranian ‘nuclear weapons program’, CWs in Syria are a red herring. US staged massacres of Syrian civilians weren’t doing the job as far as justification went, so staged ‘CWs’ attack are now the preferred method of justifying aggressive wars of conquest.
The US has massacred well over a million people in the ME, often with CWs like DU and White Phosphorus. Yet strangely, I dont see the Obomber regime calling for anyone to take out the source of these atrocities.(IE the so-called ‘white house’).
noobtube on Tue, 10th Sep 2013 6:59 pm
If Obama doesn’t get this Syria war going, his masters are not going to be happy with him.
The whole point of having this guy was to be Bush 2.0 under the guise of hope and change.
Looks like Obama is blowing it.
I wonder how the puppetmasters will deal with him if he fails here.
actioncjackson on Tue, 10th Sep 2013 7:53 pm
Like last time, going to war in Syria would elevate oil prices leading to another potential collapse of the stock market. This they don’t care about because there’s money to be made on collapse itself and plus it creates the opportunity to increase control on the public.
There’s money to be made on the war.
There’s money to be made on next-gen oil production techniques that benefit from higher oil prices.
In essence the US is trying to posture up and make the case that if the US dies, they’ll take everyone down with it. And the oil should continue flowing ‘free’ as it has been, to all nations, so don’t try and bump US out.
DC on Tue, 10th Sep 2013 9:46 pm
Want to see an example of a zionist-US controlled faux-NGO mouthpiece try to justify war?
Remember, HRW pretends to be concerned about *human rights*, yet this jewish dude sounds more Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheny.
Strong tolerance for dishonesty, general smarminess, causual endorsment of US wars, and compartmentalized thinking required.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRICVYWHyQ
RT has some of the best journalists today, we have nothing like her in my country, much less govt.