Obama Calls Russia Offer on Syria Possible ‘Breakthrough’
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and STEVEN LEE MYERS
WASHINGTON — President Obama called a proposal by Russia on Monday to avert a United States military strike on Syria over chemical weapons use “a potentially positive development” but said he would continue to press for military action to keep the pressure up.
Speaking on CNN during one of six network interviews Monday afternoon, Mr. Obama promised that his administration would “engage with the Russians and the international community to see, can we arrive at something that is enforceable and serious.”
But he said that “if we don’t maintain and move forward with a credible threat of military pressure, I do not think we will actually get the kind of agreement I would like to see.”
“It’s possible, if it’s real,” the president said of the Russian proposal that Syria put its stockpiles of chemical weapons under international supervision and eventually to destroy them.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama called a proposal by Russia on Monday to avert a United States military strike on Syria over chemical weapons use “a potentially positive development” but said he would continue to press for military action to keep the pressure up.
Speaking on CNN during one of six network interviews Monday afternoon, Mr. Obama promised that his administration would “engage with the Russians and the international community to see, can we arrive at something that is enforceable and serious.”
But he said that “if we don’t maintain and move forward with a credible threat of military pressure, I do not think we will actually get the kind of agreement I would like to see.”
“It’s possible, if it’s real,” the president said of the Russian proposal that Syria put its stockpiles of chemical weapons under international supervision and eventually to destroy them.
(More here.)
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