President Obama has said the US will maintain the threat of military action against Syria as Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart reached agreement on the regime’s chemical weapons. On the final day of talks in Geneva between Russia and the US, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said their decision was based upon “consensus and compromise”. Kerry said that, under the pact, Syria must submit a “comprehensive listing” of its chemical weapons stockpiles within one week – and that if Syria fails, they will seek a Security Council resolution that could authorise military action. Kerry added that Assad had until November to allow UN inspectors access to the sites and that destruction of chemical weapons must be complete by mid-2014. Talking to journalists Kerry said the pair and their teams of experts had reached “a shared assessment” of the existing stockpile and that Syria must destroy all its weapons. They added they were in agreement that Syria must allow UN inspectors to vista all sites where chemical weapons were suspected of being stored. Kerry said: “We have committed to a standard that says, ‘verify and verify’. Providing this framework is fully implemented it can end the threat these weapons pose not only to the Syrian people but also their neighbours. “Because of the threat of proliferation, this framework can provide greater protection and security to the world. “The world will now expect the Assad regime to live up to its commitments … there can be no room for games. Or anything less than full compliance by the Assad regime … Syria must allow immediate, unfettered access to chemical sites”. Updated with