December 18th, 2013 - 09:00 GMT Russia offers to escort chemical arms out of Syria Russia announced Monday that its navy was ready to escort ships carrying Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile out of the country. Read more
![Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the media after a closed-door meeting of the Security Council on Syria December 16, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Was8154045.jpg?itok=1trTFCTp "Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the media after a closed-door meeting of the Security Council on Syria December 16, 2013. [AFP]")
