Russian Foreign Minister Sergyi Lavrov said Thursday that his country is cooperating with the Syrian side to prepare a specific plan to put the Syrian chemical weapons under the control of international community.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergyi Lavrov said Thursday that his country is cooperating with the Syrian side to prepare a specific plan for the implementation of the Russian initiative to put the Syrian chemical weapons under the control of international community.

"We are currently working on the preparation of a viable and clear plan of action, and we are now in contact with the Syrian side in this regard," Lavrov said in a joint news conference with his Libyan counterpart Mohammad Abdul Aziz in Moscow, stressing that the work on the completion of the plan will be in collaboration with the United Nations.

"We hope to present this plan in the very near future, and will be prepared to finalize it and work it out with the involvement of the U.N. Secretary General, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and members of the Security Council," which includes the United States," the Russian minister added, noting that the plan will be presented to all concerned parties, including the United States.

This action does not eliminate the need to investigate all reports of the use of chemical weapons in Syria," Lavrov went on to say, adding that "the UN experts should return to Syria to complete the work in accordance with their mission and submit their report to the UN Security Council, which must consider this issue and take into account all the facts, including evidences that are currently disclosed by experts, social organizations and religious figures and others."

On Tuesday, however, Lavrov said the proposal "is not an entirely Russian initiative. It stems from contacts we have had with our American colleagues, from yesterday's statement by John Kerry, who said strikes could be avoided if this problem is solved."