SYRIA RECOVERY

China and Russia welcome Syria joining chemical arms pact

Russian President Vladimir Putin has welcomed Syria's announcement that it had joined a global anti-chemical weapons treaty, saying it showed Damascus was serious in its intention to resolve the conflict.
“I believe we should welcome such a decision,” he told a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit on Friday.
“(It) is an important step towards the resolution of the Syrian crisis; this confirms the serious intention of our Syrian partners to follow this path.”
China's Foreign Ministry too has said that it welcomed a decision by Syria to join the global anti-chemical weapons treaty.
The United Nations said it received a document from Syria on joining the pact, a move Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised as part of a deal to avoid US air strikes.
The move would end Syria's status as one of only seven nations outside the 1997 international convention that outlaws stockpiling chemical weapons.
Other holdouts include Syria's neighbours Egypt and Israel, as well as North Korea.


[REUTERS]

That's a GOOD DEVELOPMENT
Next let an election be held in Syria to bring about a change of governance while Assad should go and take
some rest.
What happens after this is left for the Syrians to decide.