AlQa'dah 5, 1434, Sep 11, 2013, SPA -- U.S. President Barack Obama is sending Secretary of State John Kerry to Switzerland this week to discuss a possible deal on Syria's chemical weapons with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a State Department official said Tuesday. The official said that Kerry would meet with Lavrov in Geneva Thursday to try to reach a deal on a U.N. Security Council resolution that would require Syria to give up its chemical weapons or face consequences.