Reports and negotiations over Syrian issue: world media review

“United States Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday a U.S.-Russia deal has the “full ability” strip Syria of its chemical arsenal as United Nations inspectors turned over their report on the alleged use of chemical weapons to the Secretary-General.

Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem after briefing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the framework accord reached in Geneva on Saturday, Kerry said it “has the full ability … to strip all of the chemical weapons from Syria.” NBS news writes about this.

At the same time the world is expected to get a look at the findings of U.N. weapons inspectors Monday as Security Council powers work to turn a U.S.-Russian framework on Syria’s chemical weapons into a concrete plan.

As CNN reports “U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received the inspectors’ report on the August poison gas attack outside Damascus on Sunday, the United Nations announced. Ban is scheduled to brief the Security Council on the report in a closed-door session Monday morning — and two diplomats told CNN the report is likely to be released publicly at that time”.

USA started its announcements about attacking Syria since August 21 when according to the US source Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapon during the war in the country and it caused death of more than 1400 people among them there were many children.
UN experts took the material and left the country on the end of August in order to examine the case.

“The U.S. and Russia struck a deal Saturday under which Syria will allow its stockpile of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by next year — easing a crisis over a threatened American military attack.

Kerry said Russia had stated that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime had agreed to give an accounting of its chemical arsenal within a week.

Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, announced the deal after a three days of talks in Geneva”, NBS news continues.

US President Barack Obama announced before that he couldn’t attack Syria without the agreement of the US House of Representatives. The latter postponed the debates on the issue as they announced “to wait the developments of the events”. Russia made some announcements according which it wanted to prevent the attack against Syria.

A Syrian minister on Sunday called the deal a “victory” for Damascus, won by Russia.

“This agreement, an achievement of Russian diplomats and the Russian leadership, is a victory for Syria won thanks to our Russian friends,” Syria’s Minister for National Reconciliation Ali Haidar told Russian news agency RIA.

“We welcome this agreement. From one point of view, it will help Syrians exit the crisis, from another, it has prevented a war against Syria, having taken away the pretext for one from those who wanted to unleash (it),” he said.

Another research was published about Syrian war on the other day. According to the HIS Jane’s research center an army of nearly 100.000 soldiers is struggling now against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and half of them are extremists.

According to the source some Islamists in this team have connections with “Al-Qaida”.
War is Syria is lasting for already more than two years. According to UN more than 100.000 people have already been killed during the war and more than 2 million people have become refugees.