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US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-back-to-killing-people-with-regular-weapons dept.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has announced an agreement between the U.S. and Russia on a plan for removing and destroying Syria's chemical weapons. "Damascus will be given one week from now to give an inventory of its chemical arsenal and will have to allow international inspectors into Syria 'no later than November,' Kerry said after a third day of intense negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva." The weapons must all be eliminated by mid-2014. "If Syrian President Bashar Assad fails to meet the demands, then a resolution to enforce compliance would be sought at the U.N. Security Council, Kerry said. The action could include sanctions, and Kerry said that the U.S. would reserve the right to use military force, but Russia remains opposed to any armed intervention." President Obama said, "The use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world is an affront to human dignity and a threat to the security of people everywhere. We have a duty to preserve a world free from the fear of chemical weapons for our children."

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  1. USA, STFU!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    USA is the ONLY country that produced, patented and even used more than 150 different chemical and biological weapons in foreign territory (vietnam)
    USA is the ONLY country that used nuclear weapons in a foreign country (japan)
    CIA is proven to be directly involved in every terrorist act against foreign countries by arming, training, giving intelligence and economic support to different groups, including al-qaeda, for decades to destabilize foreign countries and goverments that won't agree with USA point of view
    USA is the only country that activelly spy on other countries and even it's own citizens comms with his PRISM project, and don't give a SHIT about their own citizen's rights

    and they DARE to put themselves as the moral court of the world?????
    they should be removed from the security council, and they should remove their veto hability because they are more a terrorist country than any of the middle east countries