UN agree deal to force Syria to hand over weapons but US and Russia argue on details Mark Lyall Grant, Britain's UN ambassador, said that the five veto-wielding permanent members of the Council - Britain, France, the US, Russia and China - had finally agreed on a "binding and enforceable draft resolution." Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, told reporters that the draft resolution said "there will be no enforcement in line with Chapter 7" of the UN Charter, which authorises the use of military force and economic sanctions. Yet a western diplomat told The Telegraph that the draft resolution in fact stated that the Council "decides to impose measures under Chapter 7" in the event of "non-compliance" with the deal - such as the unauthorised transfer or further use of chemical weapons. The diplomat indicated that this meant econimic sanctions, rather than military intervention, would be threatened. The Russian, U.S. and British ambassadors said the executive board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons may meet on Friday in The Hague to agree on a document setting out its exact duties. This would enable the Security Council to possibly vote late Friday at the earliest, the ambassadors said. Western diplomats said the draft resolution "determines that the use of chemical weapons in Syria constitutes a threat to international peace and security" and "condemns" the August 21 attack on a Damascus suburb that the US says killed some 1,400 people. However they did not indicate whether or not it would blame the Assad regime for carrying out the attack - something the Russian government has repeatedly refused to do. A western diplomat conceded that the draft resolution contained "nothing specific" about accountability for the attack.