申論題

    U.N. resolution orders Syrian chemical arms to be destroyed September 29, 2013 

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus. 

The major powers overcame a prolonged deadlock to approve the first council resolution on the conflict, which is now 30 months old with more than 100,000 dead. 

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon, who called the resolution “the first hopeful news on Syria in a long time.” said he hopes to convene a peace conference in mid-November. Resolution 2118, the result of bruising negotiations between the United States and Russia, gives international binding force to a plan drawn up by the two to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad's chemical arms.