Obama hopes Kerry talks ‘bear fruit’ on Syria

By Darlene Superville

Published September 13, 2013 6:57pm ET

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Obama hopes Kerry talks ‘bear fruit’ on Syria — President Barack Obama meets with the Kuwait Amir Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. The visit by Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah comes as Obama and top aides are lobbying skeptical lawmakers to support using military force against Syria for a deadly chemical weapons attack the U.S. says was carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s hopeful negotiations Secretary of State John Kerry is having over the future of Syria’s chemical weapons “bear fruit.”

The president said during an Oval Office meeting with Kuwait’s ruler Friday that they agree Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons in a criminal act.

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