Syrian Crisis May Be Resolved Through Diplomacy
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Just a few weeks ago there was a major debate going on between world leaders about what the best course of action was to prevent another incident of the chemical attack like the one the innocent residents of Syria were subjected to, on August 21st, 2013.
The USA and France wanted to conduct air strikes to try destroy the government's chemical arsenal, while Russia and many other countries in the world were leaning towards a diplomatic solution. After much argument, a compromise was reached.
On September 14th, the United Sates and the Bashar Al Assad's closest ally, Russia, announced that they would work with the Syrian government to eliminate the country's chemical weapon hoard by mid-2014. The landmark decision to try solve this issue peacefully through diplomacy was met with relief by nations all across the world.
Under the agreement struck between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, in order to avoid air strikes the Syrian government would share the details of its chemical weapon stockpiles within a week. Following that they would grant inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) complete access to the weapons no later than November 2013.
On Friday, September 20th, the Syrian government complied with the first condition by sending in a list of its chemical weapons to the OPCW, a consortium of 189 countries that have signed an agreement outlawing such arsenal. While no details have been released with regards to the weapons, the fact that President Assad has fulfilled the first request indicates that he many be willing to work out a settlement. This has led to tepid optimism that a peaceful resolution will be reached, averting what could have become a major crisis. We sure hope that the process continues peacefully!
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- joey m.about 11 yearsi agree with unknown u need to wake up and actually listen to the news
- unknownabout 11 yearsyou bunch of pansies this is what syria wants if we dont get rid of al bashir and his military their going to keep attacking the syrian people. you liberals need to wake up and smell the hummus we have proof of chemical warfare now get rid of it syria was in the agreement to never use chemical weapons and now they've broken that agreement they cant just defy the united states and not face consequences
- pplabout 11 yearsthis was helpful
- jeabout 11 yearsawesome
- pbodyabout 11 yearsthis is thanks to rusia
- Chelsea Smithabout 11 yearsthis article is about the syria crisis and about a coming to a solution. I learned that France wanted to destroy our chemical weapons and eliminate all of our sources. i think that maybe if we act together then the syria problem will become resolved and that the whole problem will become something that people talk about and then they "forgive and forget" mostly just forget.
- Jonathan P.about 11 yearsThis article about the Syria Crisis is instering because the U.S at first wanted to blow up Syria. The Russia's then came up with a dipolmac soution to destroyed Basahar Al Assad's chemical weapons. That is a step in the peaceful resoution to stop him from using chemical weapons. No country needs to start a war.
- Diamond J.about 11 yearsi learned US France wanted to destroy the governments chemical arsenal, while russia and other contries wanted to use diplamatic solutions. On September 20th complied by sending a list of its chemical weapons. this was a good atical because it lets us know whats going on in the world and it had really good facts.
- DPabout 11 yearsI believe that in this article they were trying to find a better way to solve the country of Syria's problems. Instead of doing something drastic the country of Russia decided to work together with the Syrian government to "...eliminate the country's chemical weapon hoard by mid-2014." (source from article.)
- NSabout 11 yearsI learned that a few weeks ago the leaders had a world debate about weapons. Basically, they think it would be best to take weapons away, so that there isnt another 'world incident' or 'world crisis'.