Russia Agrees to U.N. Resolution on Syria’s Chemical Weapons, U.S. Says
| The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed on a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapons, but the text will not threaten the use of force for failure to comply, officials said. |
| The office of the American ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, announced the deal. But the final version, which will be discussed by the full 15-member Security Council on Thursday night, was not written under Chapter VII of the United Nations charter, the strongest form of a Security Council resolution because it can be enforced with military action. |
| That is a compromise with Russia, the Syrian government’s most powerful defender, which had said from the outset of negotiations it would oppose a Chapter VII resolution, as it has repeatedly done throughout the divided Security Council’s efforts to forge a consensus on resolving the Syria conflict. |
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