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| Syria conflict: France to float UN Syria resolution | |
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| France will put a resolution to the UN Security Council to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control so they can be destroyed, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says. | |
| He said it would threaten "extremely serious" consequences if Syria breached its conditions. | |
| There would be a request for a complete inspection of all chemical weapons. | |
| Russia also has a plan to put Syrian's chemical weapons under international control, it says. | |
| Mr Fabius says the plan had been discussed before, but has probably been advanced by the pressure applied in recent weeks, he said at a news conference in Paris. | |
| The Russians have blocked all previous French-led efforts at the Security Council, says the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris. | |
| Mr Lavrov said there was a "concrete plan" for the Syrian government to hand over its chemical weapons arsenal. | |
| "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," he said. |