France: Russia’s proposal worthy of ‘close scrutiny’

France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Monday said that Russia’s proposal that Syria surrender its chemical weapons to international control was worthy of “close scrutiny,” but that any deal would have to include three basic components: that Assad quickly place his arsenal of chemical weapons under international control and allow the weapons to be destroyed; that the UN Security Council endorse the deal; and that the agreement would not be seen as absolving Assad for the August chemical weapons attack, which the US says killed over 1,400.

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