Washington on Thursday called on the Syrian regime to quickly declare the scope and size of its chemical weapons stockpile as Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva for high-stakes talks.

A senior US official said the aim for the talks with Russia was "to see if in fact we can test whether there is a credible and authentic way forward here, that the Russians mean what they say. . . and probably more importantly that Assad means what he says."

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