ANKARA
Azerbaijan supports the agreement between the US and Russia on controlling and destroying of Syria's chemical weapons.
Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a written statement defining the position of Azerbaijan in the Russian proposal of destroying the chemical weapons of Syria.
The statement strongly condemned the use of chemical weapons and thanked the UN inspection team for the difficult task they shouldered.
The statement emphasized that Azerbaijan supports the US-Russia agreement on the destroying of the chemical weapons of Syria and Azerbaijan is ready to cooperate with any parties in the UN and UN Security Council for a political solution of Syrian civil war. It was also stated that Azerbaijan expects the procedures towards the destroying of the chemical weapons and strict measurement to be taken in Syria by Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as soon as possible.
The statement underlined that Azerbaijan accepts the UN Security Council as a competent institution for keeping prudence and peace in the world and the resolutions by the UNSC should absolutely be applied.
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