Foreign Affairs/Syria Deeply Media Call on Syria
Foreign Affairs magazine and Syria Deeply held a media call with former U.S. ambassador to Syria Richard W. Murphy, Syria expert and NOW...
Speakers: Richard W. Murphy, Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, U.S. State Department
Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Michael Weiss, Columnist, NOW Lebanon
Presider: Gideon Rose, Editor, Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs magazine
September 19, 2013
Foreign Affairs magazine and Syria Deeply held a media call with former U.S. ambassador to Syria Richard W. Murphy, Syria expert and NOW Lebanon columnist Michael Weiss, and CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow Richard K. Betts about the current crisis in Syria and the framework to remove and dismantle Syria's chemical weapons program.
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