UNITED NATIONS, Sept 28 (AFP): The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution, landmark Friday the destruction of chemical weapons, Syria and a murderous gas attack in Damascus to condemn the order.
The great powers overcame a lengthy deadlock to the first Council resolution on the conflict to approve, which is now 30 months old with more than 100,000 dead.
Leader who United Nations Ban Ki-moon, who called the resolution "the first hopeful news about Syria for a long time" said that he hopes to convene a peace conference in mid-November.
Resolution 2118, which gives the result of negotiations between the United States and Russia, crushing international binding force one of the two established plan to eliminate chemical weapons to President Bashar al Assad.
The plan calls for Syria's estimated 1,000 tons of chemical weapons provided under international supervision by mid-2014.
International experts should work beginning in Syria next week to meet the tight deadline. Britain and China offered to finance the disarmament operation.
"The regime does not act, will be the consequences," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned the 15-Member Council after the vote, sealing a US Russian agreement.
But Kerry welcomed the resolution.
"The Security Council has shown that if we for the common policy aside, we are good in capable of doing great things," he said.
Human Rights Watch was impressed but not with the deal.
"This resolution fails to ensure justice for the gassing of hundreds of children and many other serious crimes", said the Watchdog UN Director, Philippe Bolopion.
Efforts to destroy Syria's chemical weapons "not the reality that conventional weapons killed the vast majority of the estimated 100,000 people who have died in the conflict to speak," Bolopion said.
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