Assad To Destroy Chemical Weapons 'In A Year'

Syrian leader Bashar al Assad has pledged to destroy his stockpile of chemical arms - but warned it would take a year to do so.

In an interview with Fox News, Mr Assad said: "I think it's a very complicated operation, technically. And it needs a lot of money, about a billion.

"So it depends, you have to ask the experts what they mean by quickly. It has a certain schedule. It needs a year, or maybe a little bit more."

He also insisted that his decision to destroy the weapons was not forced upon him by the threat of US strikes.

Mr Assad denied his regime was responsible for the sarin gas attack

"Yeah, there's a misunderstanding that we agreed with this agreement because of the Americans," he told the US network.

He said that a UN report that found "clear and convincing evidence" of a sarin nerve gas attack in Syria last month is "unrealistic" and denied his regime was responsible.

Mr Assad's comments came after a senior Russian diplomat said Damascus would stick to its commitment to eliminate its chemical weapons by mid-2014.

After talks in Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said President Assad was "very serious" about the disarmament plan.

Mr Ryabkov also said that Syrian officials had shown him "material evidence" implicating rebels in the sarin attack.

And the Russian diplomat criticised the United Nations for being "one-sided" in its recent report on the attack.

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