We are assured that Russia, with its prestige at stake, will now compel Syria’s leader to hand over his 1,000 tons of poison gas, in accordance with the fastest timetable ever for disarmament on this scale. Nicholas Burns, a professor of international politics at Harvard and once a leading US diplomat, writes that America “will have every right to pressure its Russian co-pilot on the deal to make Assad honour it”.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:18:50 +0000