In a new interview with Italian TV, Syrian President Bashar Assad expressed support for the UN Security Council resolution on Syria’s chemical disarmament, a resolution which passed on Friday and echoed existing deals surrounding Syria’s recent ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
“According to every chapter in the agreement, we don’t have any reservation,” Assad insisted, saying that Syria will comply with the CWC as it does every other treaty it has signed.
Inspectors are already in Syria, and the first disarmament efforts will begin on Tuesday. The process is expected to be relatively straightforward, since most of Syria’s arsenal is “unweaponized” precursors that can be readily dealt with.
In the interview, Assad also expressed some support for a negotiated solution to the ongoing civil war, though he insisted that no deal could be made with the al-Qaeda factions involved in the fighting, nor those that are calling for foreign invasion to install them as the new government. Since that covers most of the rebels, it suggests the diplomatic track on the war still has a long way to go.
Anyone paying attention to the long list of UN resolutions that have not been abided by, in this case, by Israel. Or maybe that is now so old news that no one mentions it anymore. We have to understand that this has war has nothing to do with chem weapons or humanitarianism. It is about regime change, world domination and brininging uder their sphere of influence Lebanon, Syria and Iran. The surrogate war carried out by teh US and its ME allies continues unabated. Calls for more sanctions against a very compliant Iran are getting louder. Something has to be done to stop this madness, and since the biggest bully on the block is the USA, its really up to US citizens to rise to the call. The US calls itself the worlds policeman for all the wrong reasons, but acting on that premise the people have to reign in their government before this whole planet is reduced to rubble.