France will submit a draft resolution binding
Published on Tuesday, September 10, 2013
3:44 AM //
Defence
The French draft UN resolution is binding and provides the "control and dismantling" of Syrian chemical weapons, said Tuesday the head of French diplomacy, Laurent Fabius.
"France will propose to its partners today the Security Council a draft resolution under Chapter 7," authorizing the use of force in case of non-compliance, told the press the Minister.
It aims to "demand that the plan to have any immediate light on its chemical weapons program, he placed under international control and be dismantled," he said.
Fabius said that the resolution would also aim to "establish a comprehensive inspection and control device of its obligations under the aegis of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)."
"It is the acceptance of the specific conditions that we deem credible intentions which have been expressed," said the head of French diplomacy.
Russia, an ally of the regime in Damascus, on Monday proposed to place the Syrian chemical weapons under international control in order to destroy it, the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem "welcomed".
For its part, the Syrian opposition has denounced a "political maneuver" to avoid western strikes, and again demanded a "response" against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The French defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said for his part that "international pressure had worked.""If there had been no such determination, Russia would not move," he said.
"This is an opening. It must be seized and that the regime of Bashar al-Assad will meet formally, it firmly engages and it is implemented quickly," he said.
He also confirmed that the Russian proposal would be "a binding UN resolution."
"We absolutely do not release the pressure. Our entire device is ready", yet the minister said.
Bashar al-Assad is accused by Western countries of having perpetrated the August 21 massacre near Damascus with chemical weapons of several hundred people, and that Washington intended to punish Paris with military strikes.
