AlQa'dah 18, 1434, Sep 24, 2013, SPA -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday the U.N. Security Council must agree to a resolution on Syrian chemical weapons that includes consequences for the regime of President Bashar al-Assad if he does not meet demands to dismantle his chemical arsenal. "The Syrian government took a first step by giving an accounting of its stockpiles. Now there must be a strong Security Council resolution to verify that the Assad regime is keeping its commitments, ... and there must be consequences if they fail to do so," President Obama warned. President Obama told the U.N. General Assembly that failure to include such consequences would mean the international body is unable to enforce such requirements. "If we cannot agree even on this, then it will show that the United Nations is incapable of enforcing the most basic of international laws," the U.S. president said. "On the other hand, if we succeed, it will send a powerful message that the use of chemical weapons has no place in the 21st century and that this body means what it said."
