John Kerry, the US secretary of state, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said that if the Assad regime fails to hand over its chemcial weapons, they will seek a Security Council resolution that could in theory authorise military action.
The deal reached includes a timetable and how Syria must comply. Mr Kerry said arms inspectors must be on the ground in Syria by November and the weapons must all be handed over by mid-2014.
At a news conference in Geneva, Mr Kerry said the pair and their teams of experts had reached “a shared assessment” of the existing stockpile and that Syria must destroy all of its weapons .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk
