‘Syria annihilate CWs only if US ends support for terrorists’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said complete annihilation of chemical weapons will be done only if the US ends its support for terrorists. In an interview with state-run news channel Rossiya-24, he said that Syria will start handing over information on its chemical weapons to international groups a month after it signs the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Damascus has agreed to a Russia proposal to put its chemical weapons stockpiles under international control.
President Assad said “It doesn’t mean that Syria will sign the documents, fulfill the obligations and that’s it. It’s a bilateral process aimed, first of all, at making the US stop pursuing its policy of threats against Syria.”
He added that Syria is handing over its chemical weapons under international supervision because of Russia and that Damascus would have rejected such a plan by any other countries.
He added, “If we want stability in the Middle East, all the countries in the region should stick to international] agreements,” adding: “And Israel is the first that should do so, since Israel possessed nuclear, chemical, biological and all other kinds of weapons of mass destruction.”
He said the acceptance of the plan proposed by Moscow is not related to the threats by the US, reiterating that any military intervention against Syria would certainly entangle the whole region with a devastative war. However, Assad noted, Syria spares no efforts to help maintain security in the region.
Bashar Assad noted that any kind of a war against Syria would “destroy the entire region” and lead to decades of instability in the Middle East.