Putin imposes a new world order

Russia has outmaneuvered the West over Syria's chemical weapons.

The first cracks have appeared in the Geneva deal on Syria's chemical weapons. Talks between the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the US secretary of state, John Kerry, in Geneva at the weekend, led to the publication of a timetable to destroy Syria's chemical weapons by mid-2014.

A meeting on Monday followed between Kerry and the UK and French foreign ministers, William Hague and Laurent Fabius. They agreed to push for a "strongly worded" resolution in the UN Security Council to ensure Assad complies. But Russia has dismissed this call, and has accused Western governments of rewriting the agreement, says John Lichfield in The Independent.

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