{"id":42679,"date":"2013-09-10T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T10:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=42679"},"modified":"2013-09-10T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T10:53:44","slug":"syrian-civil-warus-must-stop-for-military-strike-after-syria-chemical-weapon-deal-breaking-news-42679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/syrian-civil-warus-must-stop-for-military-strike-after-syria-chemical-weapon-deal-breaking-news-42679\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Civil War:US Must stop for military strike after Syria Chemical weapon deal \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia is preparing a “concrete plan” for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons, Moscow has said.<\/h1>\n

Barack Obama has said he will delay a military strike against Syria if the Assad regime agrees to place its chemical weapons under international control.<\/p>\n

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov\u00a0said his country was working on an “effective, concrete” plan for putting Syria’s chemical weapons under international control.<\/p>\n

France is to formally put forward a UN Security Council draft resolution for Syria to give up its chemical weapons.<\/p>\n

The potential for a diplomatic solution came after Russia proposed that Syria turn its chemical weapons over in return for avoiding strikes from the US.<\/p>\n

Russia floated the idea after\u00a0US Secretary of State John Kerry said the only way for Syria to avoid attack was to hand over all of its chemical weapons\u00a0in a week.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister David Cameron said the Russian plan was “hugely welcome”.<\/p>\n

But he warned that it must\u00a0not become a “distraction” from resolving the crisis over poison gas attacks on civilians in the country.<\/p>\n

Iran said it supported the plan and offered to help the Syrian government put the weapons under international control.<\/p>\n

China has also said that it backs the plan.<\/p>\n

The US State Department had initially attempted to play down the significance of Mr Kerry’s comments, claiming he had been\u00a0speaking “rhetorically”.<\/p>\n

But Mr\u00a0Lavrov immediately\u00a0seized on the comments, raising the prospect of international observers supervising the\u00a0handover.<\/p>\n

Syria has welcomed the\u00a0proposal, but the opposition Syrian National Coalition has called the plan a “political manoeuvre”.<\/p>\n

Dozens of scientists would be needed – as part of a team of hundreds – for any inspection, said Sky’s Foreign Editor Tim Marshall.<\/p>\n

“You then have to deploy them into a warzone. Who’s going to do that? A lot of these sites are in contested areas.”<\/p>\n

On Monday night, with a breakthrough in sight, US Senate majority leader Harry Reid postponed a crucial vote to authorise military action, due to be held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama gave six television interviews with US networks, where he welcomed Syria’s statement as a potentially “positive development”.<\/p>\n

Asked by Diane Sawyer of ABC News if he would delay an attack should Mr Assad yield control of his chemical weapons, Mr Obama answered: “Absolutely, if in fact that happened.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I want to make sure that norm against use of chemical weapons is maintained.<\/p>\n

“That’s in our national security interest. If we can do that without a military strike, that is overwhelmingly my preference.”<\/p>\n

He said the US needed to maintain its threat of military action, arguing that any potential breakthrough was due to the sustained pressure on the Assad regime.<\/p>\n

In a separate interview with NBC, Mr Obama took the step – unusual for any politician – of conceding he may lose his campaign in Congress for military authorisation.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t say I’m confident” of the outcome, he said.<\/p>\n

Legislation approved in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week would give Mr Obama a maximum of 90 days to carry out a military attack.<\/p>\n

It includes a ban on combat operations on the ground in Syria.<\/p>\n

The US accuses Mr\u00a0Assad’s government of being behind the August 21 attack in Damascus, which is claimed to have killed up to 1,429 people.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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