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Запад не интересует проблема сирийского химического оружия:

интересовала.... еще более года назад:

On September 9th John Kerry, America’s secretary of state, answering a reporter’s question about how, if at all, Syria could avert a strike, replied by saying that it could hand over all its chemical weapons forthwith. Having previously called Mr Kerry a liar for denying the links between the Syrian opposition and al-Qaeda, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, jumped on his seemingly off-the-cuff remark. As he showed with a remarkable appeal to international law and multilateralism in the New York Times on September 12th, Mr Putin is keen to be seen as a legitimate and indispensable player in world affairs. So at his boss’s bidding Mr Kerry’s Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, took the opportunity to call on the Syrian regime to give up its stockpiles of chemical weapons and join the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which bans their possession.

None of this was as impromptu as it seemed. In 2012, when Russia pulled out of a programme set up 20 years ago to help the former Soviet Union get rid of weapons of mass destruction, Richard Lugar, who as a senator had been one of the creators of the programme, suggested that the two countries could impose control over Syrian chemical weapons. The Russians buried the idea, arguing that the Syrian government needed no oversight.

In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Lugar said his idea had been initially rebuffed by Russian officials, who noted that Syria had never joined an agreement to eliminate such arms, the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was signed by 188 countries.

читать полностью здесь: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/wo...pons.html?_r=0