AlQa'dah 8, 1434, Sep 14, 2013, SPA -- The United States and Russia have given Syria until the middle of 2014 to remove or destroy its chemical weapons, dpa reported. During their talks in Geneva on Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also called for international inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to be on the ground in Syria by no later than November. If Syria does not implement the deal or if chemical weapons are used again, the UN Security Council will consider measures under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which foresees military or other punitive actions, Kerry said. The US-Russian deal still needs to be approved by the OPCW in The Hague.
