Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Syria’s cooperation with the team of international weapons inspectors.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Syria's cooperation with the team of international weapons inspectors.

"Doubts about whether the Syrian leadership would adequately respond to the decision taken on chemical weapons -- these doubts did not bear out," Russian news agencies quoted Putin as telling reporters at a regional summit in Indonesia.

"The Syrian leadership has very actively joined this work and is acting in a transparent manner, helping international agencies," said Putin.

A team of experts from the United Nations and the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived in Damascus a week ago to begin verifying the details of Syria's chemical arsenal and destroying and disabling it.

They were dispatched under the terms of a United Nations Security Council resolution passed on September 27, which enshrines an US-Russian deal for Damascus to relinquish its chemical weapons.