The U.S. and Russia have agreed on a framework for Syria to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile by the middle of 2014, media reports said Saturday. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will be required to declare by next Friday his country's stockpile of chemical weapons to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a Hague-based agency, The Wall Street Journal reported. The agreement also calls on Syria to grant chemical-weapons inspectors immediate and unfettered access to sites where the weapons are being stored. The agreement was unveiled following negotiations between the U.S. and Russia to American airstrikes in reaction to the use of chemical weapons in Syria's ongoing civil war.
