Erdogan Says Assad 'Buying Time' with Chemical Proposal
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday cast doubt on a proposal to secure Syria's chemical weapons, saying the Syrian government should not be trusted and is only seeking to stave off an international intervention.
Erdogan said that Damascus has "violated all of its promises in order to buy more time to continue massacring people, and it will continue to do so."
He added: "When it comes to chemical weapons, we don't believe them (the Syrian government) and we don't trust them."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are meeting in Geneva to discuss the plan to place Syria's chemical arsenal under international control.
Source: Agence France Presse
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