complete surrender of all chemical weapons. implicit within that, i think, that they do have chemical weapons. >> the foreign minister of syria, former syrian ambassador to the united states, well known to a lot of officials here in washington. my assumption is, nick, you have been in the region, you know a lot about what's going on. if let's say on thursday, when john kerry meets with the foreign minister of russia in geneva, switzerland, let's say the two of them basically reach a compromise, an agreement, i assume the russians will be able to bring the syrians along, i assume the u.s. will be able to bring britain and france and all the other allies along, and that would set the stage for a serious u.n. security council resolution that potentially could get unanimous support. >> reporter: that's a possibility, but if you look at what's happening today, those talks about attacks seem to have been scuppered in many ways, according to one diplomat i spoke to early on. the ground between the french and russian positions pretty