Bashar Assad says not concerned by West’s draft resolution submitted to UN Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he is ‘not concerned’ about a draft resolution submitted by the United States, France and the UK to the UN Security Council to place Syrian chemical weapons under international control. On September 14, Russia and the United States agreed on a deal under which Syria must account for its chemical weapons stockpiles within a week and see them eliminated by the middle of 2014. Syria has agreed to the deal. Representatives from the five permanent members of the Security Council - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China - met on September 19 for a third day to discuss the draft resolution that is aimed to make the deal legally binding. The draft makes references to possible measures - sanctions and military force - against the Syrian government under Article 7 of the UN Charter. Russia has censured the West over the references. “I am not c