France, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have agreed to strengthen the Syrian opposition in its battle against Bashar Assad's regime, the French presidency said Friday.

After a meeting in Paris, French President Francois Hollande and foreign ministers from the three countries "agreed on the need to strengthen international support for the democratic opposition to allow it to face attacks by the regime," the Elysee said in a statement.

France said Friday that the Syrian regime's announcement that it had joined a ban on chemical weapons was not enough and called for a binding U.N. Security Council resolution.

"The Syrian regime's announcements are certainly very useful but also certainly insufficient," French foreign ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot said, as Washington and Moscow met in Geneva for talks on dismantling Syria's chemical arsenal.

France has reassured President Michel Suleiman that a possible Western attack against the Syrian regime would neither target Lebanon nor Hizbullah, As Safir daily reported on Friday.

The daily's correspondent in Paris said French President Francois Hollande told Suleiman on the sidelines of the Francophone Games in the southern city of Nice that Paris was exerting all efforts to steer Lebanon clear of the developments linked to Syria and its chemical weapons.

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A report by United Nations inspectors probing an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria will "probably" be published on Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.

"It will say that there was a chemical massacre... There will certainly be indications" of the origins of the attack, Fabius told French radio Thursday.

U.N. Security Council envoys from Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States held talks Wednesday on the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, but no agreement was reached.

"They discussed elements that could go into a resolution" on Syria, said one U.N. diplomat, referring to the 45-minute meeting between the council's veto-wielding permanent members.

France on Wednesday joined the United States in putting threatened military action against Syria on hold as the world waited for Bashar Assad's regime to act on its pledge to give up its chemical weapons.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked U.S. lawmakers to delay a vote on whether to authorize strikes against Syria to allow Russian-led attempts to broker a handover of Syria's arsenal time to bear fruit.

France said Wednesday it would remain poised to launch military action against Syria over its use of chemical weapons despite ongoing attempts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

The warning came after a meeting between President Francois Hollande, his foreign and defense ministers and senior military figures.

Russia clashed once again with Western powers Tuesday as envoys drafted a U.N. resolution to add muscle to a plan to strip Syria of its chemical weapons.

U.S. President Barack Obama maintained his threat to launch military strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, even while cranking up the diplomatic pressure on Moscow.

France said Tuesday it would submit a resolution to the U.N. Security Council calling on Syria to put its chemical weapons beyond use or face military action.

The resolution, to be presented in New York later in the day, will also demand that the individuals responsible for an August 21 chemical attack on Damascus suburbs be put on trial at the International Criminal Court, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told a press conference.