
Published 23-09-2013, 05:32

"On the initiative of the United States, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary State John Kerry had a phone conversation. They were discussing the implementation of the Russia-US agreement to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control,” the ministry said in a statement without giving any further details.
The landmark US-Russia deal reached earlier this month is expected to see all chemical weapons in war-torn Syria brought under international control and destroyed by mid-2014.