Baku-APA. Russia called on Syria Monday to join the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and put its chemical weapons storage facilities under international control, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
"We have given our proposal to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem and we expect a prompt and, I hope, positive response," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after his talks with Moualem.