Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he is doubtful that President Bashar al-Assad would fulfil his pledge to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control.
In a speech in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan said the Syrian president was buying time for new "massacres".
Mr Assad's government says it has accepted a Russian plan to surrender Syria's chemical weapons to international control.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said any military strike by the United States against Syria "would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism".
In an opinion piece published in the New York Times, he also said the US is increasingly seen as reliant on "brute force" and is cobbling together coalitions under the mantra "you're either with us or against us".
President Putin said the US is no longer seen as a model of democracy by millions around the world.
Referring to the last line of US President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday, he said it is extremely dangerous to encourage people to think of themselves as exceptional and added that all people are equal under God.
Mr Putin also speculates that last month's chemical weapons attack near Damascus may have just as easily have been perpetrated "by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons".
Two of the opposition groups have been labelled terrorist organisations by the US State Department, he added.
His comments represent a reminder of how difficult a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis is going to be.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said any deal to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control had to be enforceable and ensure the arsenal did not fall into the wrong hands.
He told the House of Commons that there were "immense practical difficulties" in securing such weapons.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are meeting in Geneva today for talks aimed at agreeing on a strategy to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.
The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council met in New York last night to discuss Russia's plans for placing Syria's chemical weapons under international control.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he hopes Russia's proposals could help the UN play a more effective role on Syria from now on.
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