Geneva:Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have reached an agreement on a framework for securing Syrias chemical weapons on the third day of intense negotiations in Geneva.
The United States and Russia on Saturday agreed on an ambitious plan to eliminate Syrias chemical weapons by the middle of next year.

In a landmark deal thrashed out in talks spanning three days, the two powers gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a week to hand over the details and location of his regimes stockpile, drastically cutting back on the 30 days usually accorded to new signatories of the international Chemical Weapons Convention.

They say some elements of the deal include a timetable and how Syria must comply. And if Syria fails, they will seek a United Nations Security Council resolution that could authorize military action, Kerry and Lavrov said.