Kerry, Hague, Fabius to Meet Monday in Paris

The U.S., French and British foreign ministers will meet in Paris on Monday for talks on Syria and a U.N. Security Council resolution forcing Bashar Assad's regime to give up its chemical weapons, the French presidency said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius -- who canceled a visit to Mongolia for the talks -- and British Foreign Secretary William Hague will attend the working lunch, it said.

Assad has vowed to relinquish his chemical arms, after an alleged poison gas attack near Damascus prompted threats of U.S.-led military strikes.

Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov were holding a second day of talks in Geneva Friday to hammer out the details of a Russian plan that emerged this week.

The last-minute Russian initiative caused U.S. President Barack Obama to back away from planned military strikes in response to the chemical attack, which Washington blames on the regime and says killed about 1,400 people.