The U.S. and Russia announced an agreement
Saturday aimed at setting a timetable for destruction
of Syria’s chemical weapons and averting a
proposed U.S. military strike against the war-torn
Middle Eastern nation.
Under the agreement, hammered out on the
third day of tense talks in Geneva, the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the
United Nations will be responsible for dismantling
Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities.
Syrian President Bashar Assad would be
required to provide an accounting of those weapons
within a week.
“The world will now expect the Assad regime to
live up to its public commitments,” Secretary of
State John Kerry said in announcing the deal in
Geneva. “And as I said at the outset of these
negotiations, there can be no games, no room for
avoidance, or anything less than full compliance by
the Assad regime.”
President Obama called the deal a “concrete
step toward the goal of moving Syria’s chemical
weapons under international control.”
“This framework provides the opportunity for
the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons in a
transparent, expeditious, and verifiable manner,
which could end the threat these weapons pose not
only to the Syrian people but to the region and the
world,” Obama said in a statement.
An official of the OPCW, who asked not to be
named because he was not authorized to speak
about the agreement, said details of the plan have
not been worked out but the agency welcomes the
agreement and would work to implement it.
(Disponível em: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/14/us-russia-reach-agreement-on-syria-weapons/2813195/Jim Michaels and John Bacon, USA TODAY 2:36 p.m. EDTSeptember 14, 2013)
Read text 2 and consider the statements below.
I- The pronoun it (line 34) refers to An official of the OPCW.
II- The words toward (line 22) and against (line 4) are prepositions.
III- The words transparent and verifiable (line 26) are adjectives.
IV- The words games, room (line 18) and hammered (line 6) are nouns.
Which ones are correct?
