© Ria NovostiSyrian President Bashar Assad
"Syria will send an appeal to the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in a few days. [The appeal] will have the technical documents necessary to sign the agreement," Assad said in an interview with Rossiya-24 television.
"These are standard procedures, and we will follow them," he added, speaking in Arabic with a Russian translation.
Assad emphasized, however, that Syria would not follow such procedures unilaterally while facing US threats and international support of rebel forces.
"When we see that the US genuinely stands for stability in our region, stops threatening us with military intervention and stops supplying terrorists with weapons, then we will consider it possible to finalize all necessary procedures and they will become legitimate and acceptable for Syria," he said.
Assad warned that an attack on Syria would destroy the whole Middle East, and he called on other countries in the region, especially Israel, to destroy their stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
"I think any war against Syria will turn into a war that would destroy the whole region and the Middle East will enter the stretch of troubles and instability that would last for dozens of years, affecting future generations," he said.
"If we really want stability in the Middle East, all the countries [in the region] must honor the agreements. And the first country to do so is Israel because it possesses nuclear, chemical and biological weapons - all types of weapons of mass destruction," Assad stressed.
The Syrian president also praised Russia for its efforts aimed at finding a diplomatic solution for the Syrian crisis.
"Russia plays an extremely important role in this process because we do not trust Americans and we do not have contacts with the US," he said, adding that Russia is the only country capable of ensuring the success of the Syrian peace settlement.
Assad's interview comes as Russian and US chemical weapons experts and diplomats prepare to attend a series of bilateral meetings on the Syrian crisis later Thursday and Friday in Switzerland.
The hastily organized talks are meant to discuss Moscow's plan, proposed Monday, to avert a US attack on Syria by placing Damascus' chemical weapons under international control.
No surprise, meanwhile, AIPAC has been continually beating the war drums. After all itis their dirty proxy war.Now their secret stash of WMD is out in the open watch them wriggle. As they will. And they are so predictable with their current scheme aka Casino Jack.
I just hope that the real activists get their voices heard above the roar of the zionist murderers. All is still in the balance in this awful roller-coaster.
AS we already know the double standards of Israel there is no way they will eliminate their WMD so another stalemate needed to be overcome asap as they are so desperate to get more blood on their hands.
Perhaps this time they too will be shown up to the world for what they really are. It is well overdue and I think isthe only way to counter their bloodthirst.
Fairer still would be to pit all the psychopaths and MIC against itself and leave the rest of us alone!!