Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Syria was "very actively" cooperating with international chemical weapons inspectors and suggested that Indonesia join international peace talks on the crisis.

"Doubts about whether the Syrian leadership would adequately respond to the decision taken on chemical weapons—these doubts did not bear out," Russia's RIA Novosti state news agency quoted Putin as telling reporters at a regional summit in Indonesia.

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