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The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed on the core of a resolution that would rid Syria of its chemical weapons.

UN Security Council likely to adopt Syria resolution in 2 days: Russia


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.


Russia’s 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.

Gatilov, however, stressed that there will not be an automatic trigger for hailing Chapter VII, and another resolution would be required if Damascus failed to comply with its commitment to eliminate its chemical weapons arsenal.

Earlier, diplomats said the five permanent members of the Security Council had reached a deal on the main points of the draft resolution.

The document is expected to support a deal between the United States and Russia to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control.

On August 21, hundreds of people were killed and scores of others were injured in a chemical attack on the suburbs of Damascus.

The militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition accused the army of being behind the deadly attack.

Damascus, however, has strongly denied the accusation, saying it was a false-flag operation carried out by Takfiri groups in a bid to draw in foreign military intervention.

Following the chemical attack, US stepped up its war rhetoric against the Syrian government and called for punitive military action against Damascus.

The Syrian government averted possible US aggression by accepting a Russian plan to put its chemical arsenal under international control and then have them destroyed.

No nation should possess nuclear weapons: President Rouhani


Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous

Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons on earth. One can kill millions and jeopardize the natural environment and lives of future generations through its long-term catastrophic effects. The dangers from such weapons arise from their very existence. Although nuclear weapons have only been used twice in warfare, and that’s by the US, in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 - about 22,000 reportedly remain in our world today. Disarmament is the best protection against such dangers, but achieving this goal has remained a tremendously difficult challenge.

What has made nuclear disarmament a wish and not a reality?

Why nuclear states including the US and Russia, who possess the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, refuse to disarm and eliminate their nuclear weapons?

Why the UN has failed to force these states to destroy their nuclear weapons?