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UNITED NATIONS — After months of crippling deadlock, members of the United Nations Security Council have inched closer to the details of a binding resolution on Syria, Western diplomats said Wednesday, though Russia, one of Syria's strongest allies, denied that a consensus had been reached.

Ban Ki-moon: 'First hopeful news on Syria' Jump to media player The UN Security Council unanimously adopts a binding resolution on ridding Syria of chemical weapons, a move described by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as "historic".

The UN Security Council last year finally broke a two-and-a-half year deadlock on how to deal with conflict in Syria after voting unanimously to adopt a binding resolution on ridding the country of chemical weapons.

The idea of a conference was first mooted in May, and in September UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced a tentative date of mid-November after the Security Council passed a binding resolution on Syrian chemical weapons.

International efforts to halt the violence have consistently faltered, but last month the UN Security Council broke its deadlock, voting unanimously to adopt a binding resolution on ridding the country of chemical weapons.

"They're afraid that Congress is going to vote a binding resolution to stop a hit on Iran, à la Nicaragua in the Contra war," a former senior intelligence official told me.

Last month MPs passed a binding resolution calling on Britain to ban and freeze the assets of the officials linked to the Magnitsky case.

Moreover, Mr. Gore's proposal for a binding resolution put in a bad light Governor Bush's insistence on blocking an authoritative recount.

With all eyes on Greece, the European parliament has quietly passed a non-binding resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the controversial trade liberalisation agreement between the United States and Europe.

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations passed a non-binding resolution on Tuesday to end the U.S.O.C.'s current open-ended contract that agreement gives the United States 20percentt of the I.O.C.'s global sponsorship revenue — the same amount as all the other Olympic committees, combined — and 12.75 percent of the television revenue.

Does that mean had there been a non-binding resolution on the books in the mid-1990s the Rwandan genocide wouldn't have happened or that Sudan's General Omar Bashir would call off the Janjaweed in Darfur?