Russia calls on Syria to give up control of its chemical weapons (USA News)

Russia has urged Syria to put its compound weapons under universal control, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told correspondents Monday.

"We have passed our offer to (Syrian Foreign Minister Walid) Al-Muallem and plan to gain [a] quick and positive reply," Sergey Lavrov said, as per Rt.com, the Russian news office, and the Associated Press.

Lavrov said Monday that if such a move might help turn away a conceivable U.s. strike on Syria, Russia will begin work "promptly" to convince Syria to surrender the control of its compound weapons stores.

Lavrov told columnists that Russia might urge Syria to think its compound weapons in certain territories under global oversight and after that disassemble them.

The Obama organization has blamed the Assad administration for an assault with compound weapons close Damascus Aug. 21 that murdered more than 1,400 individuals. President Obama has approached Congress to back a constrained strike against Syria accordingly.

Lavrov, who spoke after talks Monday with al-Moallem, said that U.n. substance weapons specialists might as well finish their test of the strike and present their discoveries to the U.n. Security Council.

"We have consented to push for the soonest return of assessors," Lavrov said.

Al-Moallem said his administration was primed to have the U.n. group, and demanded that Syria is prepared to utilize all channels to persuade the Americans that it wasn't behind the strike.

He included that Syria was primed for "full participation with Russia to evacuate any guise for pugnacity."

Syria is one of five nations - incorporating Angola, North Korea, Egypt, and South Sudan - that have not marked the Chemical Weapons Convention attracted up 1992.

The arms control bargain, marked by 189 nation, bans the utilization and processing of compound weapons and calls for their pulverization. Myanmar, otherwise called Burma, and Israel have marked the understanding, yet have not sanctioned it.

In a meeting with Charlie Rose for CBS This Morning, Syrian President Bashar Assad denied utilizing concoction weapons to strike his own particular individuals, however might not affirm or deny that his legislature kept such weapons. In any case, he said, assuming that they existed, they were "in concentrated control."

Syria has denied starting the Aug. 21 strike, demanding plus its associate Russia that the ambush was started by the dissidents to drag the U.s. into war. Assad told CBS that his troops were assaulted by synthetic weapons and were not the aggressors.

"Our fighters in an alternate territory were struck artificially," he told Rose. "Our officers. They headed off to the clinic - as setbacks due to concoction weapons."

In his call for an arranged settlement, Lavrov said that Russia will press on to push a serene settlement and might attempt to gather an assembling of all Syrian resistance figures to join in transactions. He included that a U.s. ambush on Syria might bargain a lethal hit to peace exertions.

Lavrov wouldn't say how Russia could react to a conceivable U.s. assault on Syria, adage that "we wouldn't prefer to continue from a negative situation and would essential take deliberations to avert a military intercession."

President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow might continue giving support to Syria in the event of U.s. ambush, yet he and other Russian authorities have made clear that Russia has no proposition to participate in threats.

Assad, in his meeting with CBS, said the U.s. might confront "repercussions" in the occasion of an ambush.

Helping: Associated Press