DHAKA: France will put a resolution to the UN Security Council to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control so they can be destroyed.

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius says, reports the BBC.

He said it would threaten ‘extremely serious’ consequences if Syria breached its conditions.

There would be a request for a complete inspection of all chemical weapons.

Russia also has a plan to put Syrian`s chemical weapons under international control, it says.

Fabius says the plan had been discussed before, but has probably been advanced by the pressure applied in recent weeks, he said at a news conference in Paris.

The Russians have blocked all previous French-led efforts at the Security Council.

Lavrov said there was a ‘concrete plan’ for the Syrian government to hand over its chemical weapons arsenal.

‘We (Russia) are currently working on preparing a workable, precise and concrete plan and for this there are literally right now, in these minutes, contacts with the Syrian side,’ he said.

BDST: 1602 HRS, SEPT 10, 2013
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