White House and State Department officials said Monday they're open to proposals by Russia to put Syria's stocks of chemical weapons under international control, but that such talk is no reason for the U.S. to back away from President Barack Obama's threat of a military strike.
"We'd have to take a hard look. Any transfer of chemical weapons to international control would be a positive development," Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said in an interview on MSNBC. "We've been highly skeptical to date. They have not even declared their chemical weapons stockpiles."
Rhodes said the U.S. would follow up with the Russians on the point "to discuss the seriousness of the proposal," but he noted that Russia has a record of defending the regime in Damascus.
"What we don't want to have is a stalling exercise where the Syrians don't follow through on commitments. we'll take a look at this," he said.
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