GENEVA: Russia and the United States (    US) were on Friday set to huddle for a second day of key talks on how to secure Syria’s chemical weapons amid reports Damascus was scattering the stockpile to frustrate efforts to track the deadly arsenal.

Syria’s key ally Russia has proposed that Damascus give up its chemical weapons in a bid to avoid threatened military strikes by the US, and on Thursday Washington and Moscow’s top diplomats began poring over the logistics of the plan at a Geneva hotel.

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