Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari has welcomed a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council to eliminate chemical weapons in the country, saying it covers most of Damascus' concerns. Speaking to reporters after the UN Security Council meeting on Friday, he called on Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France and the United States to abide by the resolution ...

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution condemning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and calling for their destruction. The resolution adopted by the 15-member council on Friday envisages a plan to eradicate Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons. However, it does not call for automatic punitive action against ...

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has praised a UN resolution to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria, pledging an EU forceful support in case of non-compliance. The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a landmark resolution, ordering the elimination of Syria's chemical arms and condemned gas attack in Damascus. However,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United Nations Security Council is about two days away from agreeing on a resolution to require Damascus to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles, a senior Russian foreign ministry official. Russias Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Wednesday that the text of the resolution will include a reference to Chapter ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia has enough evidence to assert that homemade sarin was used on August 21 in a chemical attack near Damascus, the same type but in higher concentration than in an Aleppo incident earlier this year, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said. "On the occasion of the incident in the vicinity of Aleppo on March 19, 2013 when the United Nations,...

Russia says the permanent members of the UN Security Council, long at odds over a resolution on Syria, are likely to adopt a resolution in the next two days. Russias Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Wednesday that the document will include a reference to Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which authorizes military intervention in Syria....

TEHRAN (FNA)- UN chemical weapons inspectors are to return to Syria on Wednesday to continue their mission, said Russia. But Moscow is unhappy with the direction the US is steering the Russian-brokered plan to dismantle the Syrian stockpile of chemical weapons, RT reported. The experts were sent to investigate several cases of alleged use of ...

Russia says the United States' pressure on the UN Security Council to agree to a resolution on Syria is illogical, adding that the threat of foreign intervention in the Arab country has been moved aside but not ultimately lifted. Russias Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov made the remark in parliament on Tuesday, saying a resolution on Syria could ...

(Reuters) -Russiaaccused the West on Sunday of trying to exploit a chemical weapons deal with Syria to push through a U.N. resolution threatening force against President Bashar al-Assad. Assad's government has handed over information about its chemical arsenal to a U.N.-backed weapons watchdog, meeting the first deadline of the ambitious U.S.-Russia ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, in exchange for American support of Syrias accession to OPCW. Our American partners are starting to blackmail us: If Russia does not support a resolution under Chapter 7, then ...