He said the armed opposition ultimately plans to form a government defined by institutions and a “council chosen by the people.”
The White House said it has also “been concentrated” over the last week on the issue of any remaining chemical weapons in the country and said the administration is taking “prudent measures” in regard to them.
The senior official said it is “a top tier priority for ours, and making sure that anything with those types of derivatives, which is everything from chlorine to, you know, to far worse,” is “destroyed or cared for.”
Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to meet privately Monday to discuss the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria.
“Given the recent events in Syria, the depth and consequences of which for this country and the entire region are yet to be fully understood, Russia has requested urgent closed consultations at the UN Security Council,” Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy said Sunday on Telegram.
He said the meeting was needed to discuss what was happening with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, which is in charge of maintaining a ceasefire between Israel and Syria and supervising a buffer zone that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that he had ordered the military to “take control” of the buffer zone.