Israei Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the US-Russia understandings to remove Syria’s chemical weapons ‘’will bear fruit and that they be judged by their results, the full destruction of all chemical weapons stores held by the Syrian regime, weapons it has used against its own civilians.’’
Thomas Bach, the new German elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will resign Monday from all his other positions, news reports said.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton welcomed a Russian-US agreement to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and offered the bloc's help with implementing the agreement.