This is an incredible outcome to Foreign Minister Lavrov's astute recognition of an alternative to aggression against Syria. There is so much potential to settle uncertainty for the Shi'ites it could lead to a far more stable region. This could be a real turning point in the Middle East. If the people begin to feel secure rather than threatened all the time, it would lead to great events happening. I so much want the death in that area of the world to stop.
The median age for people in the USA is 37.2 years. The average age in Syria is 22.3 in 2012, in 2013 Mali's media age is 16 years old and in Gaza it is 18.1 years. All this has to stop and the belief that life is not only possible but good has to overtake hatred. More war, more suffering and more killing will only result in the same. They have suffered enough.
9:47 PM, Sep 20, 2013
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Syria (click here) has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday, in keeping with the agreement Russia and the U.S. brokered to have Syria give up its chemical weapons arsenal.
Michael Luhan, the organization's spokesman, told The Associated Press the declaration is "being reviewed by our verification division," but details of it will not be released.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the United States and other nations that have joined the chemical weapons organization "will be making a careful and thorough review of the initial document....
...Under a U.S.-Russia agreement brokered last weekend in Geneva, inspectors are to be on the ground in Syria by November....
...All components of the chemical weapons program are to be removed from the country or destroyed by mid-2014....
..."I had a fairly long conversation with Foreign Minister Lavrov," Kerry said in Washington. "We talked about the cooperation which we both agreed to continue to provide, moving not only toward the adoption of the OPCW rules and regulations, but also a resolution that is firm and strong within the United Nations. We will continue to work on that."...
The median age for people in the USA is 37.2 years. The average age in Syria is 22.3 in 2012, in 2013 Mali's media age is 16 years old and in Gaza it is 18.1 years. All this has to stop and the belief that life is not only possible but good has to overtake hatred. More war, more suffering and more killing will only result in the same. They have suffered enough.
9:47 PM, Sep 20, 2013
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Syria (click here) has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday, in keeping with the agreement Russia and the U.S. brokered to have Syria give up its chemical weapons arsenal.
Michael Luhan, the organization's spokesman, told The Associated Press the declaration is "being reviewed by our verification division," but details of it will not be released.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the United States and other nations that have joined the chemical weapons organization "will be making a careful and thorough review of the initial document....
...Under a U.S.-Russia agreement brokered last weekend in Geneva, inspectors are to be on the ground in Syria by November....
...All components of the chemical weapons program are to be removed from the country or destroyed by mid-2014....
..."I had a fairly long conversation with Foreign Minister Lavrov," Kerry said in Washington. "We talked about the cooperation which we both agreed to continue to provide, moving not only toward the adoption of the OPCW rules and regulations, but also a resolution that is firm and strong within the United Nations. We will continue to work on that."...
