United Nations Security Council members will work on a statement on Syria in the coming days, U.S. and Russian diplomats said on Monday, after a closed-door meeting over the rebel seizure of the capital Damascus and ousting of President Bashar al-Assad.

Moscow said that the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session at its request Monday to discuss the situation in Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime by opposition forces.

The United Nations Security Council held a closed-door meeting about Syria on Monday following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad over the weekend. "The Council, I think, was more or less united on the need to preserve the territorial integrity and unity of Syria,