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The United States pleaded with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Tuesday, September 10, to destroy his chemical arms and scheduled top-level talks with Russia on a face-saving way to head off air strikes on Syria. US President Barack Obama meanwhile met lawmakers ahead of a televised national address, in which he will warn that the threat of US force must be maintained to drive genuine diplomacy to end a showdown over a chemical attack in Damascus. On Monday, September 9, Russia’s foreign minister broached a plan to have Syria give up its chemical weapons arsenal to prevent a foreign military attack. The plan has gained diplomatic currency rather swiftly, with many seeing it as an opportunity to avert a full-blown military intervention in the troubled nation. Obama meanwhile went to Capitol Hill to meet separately with Senate Democrats and Republicans, to tout his plan for a “limited” military response to the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime. Lawmakers said Obama had asked them for a pause in legislative action to allow diplomacy time to work.
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