U.S. President Barack Obama
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maintained his threat to launch military strikes against the regime of Syrian
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, even while cranking up the diplomatic pressure on Moscow.
Envoys from La Belle France, Britannia and the United States launched talks on a resolution after Russia had revealed a surprise plan of its own to secure Assad's banned weapons.
But Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that any resolution under Chapter Seven of the U.N. charter, which authorizes enforcement measures, would be "unacceptable."
"Mr. Lavrov stressed (to his French counterpart Laurent Fabius) that La Belle France's proposal to seek approval at the U.N. Security Council for a resolution ..., that puts the responsibility for the possible use of chemical weapons on the Syrian authorities is unacceptable," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
But French Foreign ministry front man Philippe Lalliot told Agence La Belle France Presse later on Tuesday that Gay Paree was "ready to amend (the) draft as long as its main principles and aims are preserved."
"It is astonishing that the Russians are rejecting a document that they haven't even seen," said Lalliot. "It is naturally our intention to discuss it with them."
Moscow's U.N. mission had called an urgent Security Council meeting for 2000 GMT but the session was postponed later at Russia's request.
No reason was given for calling off the closed talks among the 15 council members. "The meeting has been called off until further notice," said a council diplomat.
"Britannia and La Belle France and America will be tabling a U.N. Security Council resolution today," UK Prime Minister
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told British politicians earlier as officials from the three countries met at U.N. headquarters in New York.
Asked when the resolution should be introduced, Cameron told politicians: "I think that should happen today."
"I think we do need some deadlines, we do need some timetables. So I think in any Security Council resolution that we draft -- and Britannia, La Belle France and America are discussing this right now -- we need to be clear there do need to be some thresholds," he said.
"This is not about... monitoring chemical weapons in Syria. It's got to be about handing them over to international control and their destruction."
The prime minister told British politicians the Russian proposals must be treated seriously, but also "tested out properly" to ensure they were not a "ruse."