克里將與俄羅斯外長討論消除敘利亞化武威脅方案

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are meeting Thursday in Geneva to work on Russia's plan to end the threat posed by Syria's chemical weapons.

Neither Kerry nor Lavrov have given any details of the proposal. It involves President Bashar al-Assad's government giving up all of its chemical weapons to the United Nations to have them destroyed. At the same time, the United States would set aside plans for a military strike.

Ahead of the meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed in a New York Times opinion piece the need to work through the United Nations and not conduct unilateral military action in Syria.

President Barack Obama has blamed Syrian forces for using poison gas against civilians last month near Damascus. He says U.S. ships in the Mediterranean region are holding their current positions, to keep pressure on the Syrians to live up to any agreement.

Kerry has said reaching any agreement to remove the chemical-weapons threat in Syria will be "exceedingly difficult."美國國務卿克里和俄羅斯外交部長拉夫羅夫星期四將在日內瓦舉行會談，討論俄羅斯提出的消除敘利亞化學武器威脅方案。

克里和拉夫羅夫均未透露有關這項方案的細節。這一方案的要點是敘利亞總統阿薩德將其全部化武交付聯合國銷燬。與此同時，美國將擱置對敘利亞進行軍事打擊的計劃。

會談舉行之前，俄羅斯總統普京在紐約時報發表評論文章，強調必須通過聯合國進行運作，而不能單方面對敘利亞採取軍事行動。

美國總統奧巴馬指責敘利亞政府軍上月在大馬士革附近對平民使用毒氣。他說，地中海海域的美國軍艦繼續停留在目前的位置，以迫使敘利亞當局執行協議。

克里曾經表示，達成消除敘利亞化武威脅的任何協議都將是“極其困難”的。