Spokesman: Putin Discussed Idea for Chemical Weapons with Obama at G20 Summit.

Spokesman: Putin Discussed Idea for Chemical Weapons with Obama at G20 Summit.HT: EAWorldview.

The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday that Putin and US President Barack Obama discussed the idea of putting Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal under international control at the G20 summit last week.

RIA Novosti spins the report a different way, by citing Peskov as saying that the Russian Foreign Ministry will not reveal the content of Obama’s discussions with Putin, in response to a question about who initiated the question of Syria placing its chemical arsenal under international supervision.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said that Paris will put a resolution to the United Nations Security Council to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control so they can be destroyed.

Fabius said there would be a request for complete inspection of all chemical weapons and “extremely serious” consequences if Syria breached conditions.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, who proposed on Monday that Damascus hand over its chemical weapons stocks, said, “We [Russia] are currently working on preparing a workable, precise and concrete plan and for this there are literally right now, in these minutes, contacts with the Syrian side.”