DHAKA: A Western-backed Syrian rebel leadership council has rejected a Russian initiative to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control.

The group said in a video statement, reports The Jerusalem Post.

‘We announce our definitive rejection of the Russian initiative to place chemical weapons under international custody,’ Salim Idriss, head of the rebel Supreme Military Council, said in a video posted online late on Wednesday.

BDST: 1354 HRS, SEPT 12, 2013
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