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Russia Working with Assad Regime to Safeguard Syria's Chemical Weapons
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Russia is coordinating the supervision of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal with President Assad. According to a report in the Syrian Damas Post, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov agreed last month in Dublin that the U.S. would not support foreign military intervention in Syria in exchange for Russian assurances that the Assad regime would not unleash its chemical weapons. Russia has said that chemical weapons stored at sites that could have been overrun by rebel forces have been moved to more secure locations.