GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday strongly endorsed a new international plan for a political transition in Syria, saying it would send a clear message to President Bashar al-Assad that he must step down.
"Assad will still have to go," Clinton told a news conference after international mediator Kofi Annan announced that major powers including Russia and the United States had reached a deal that calls for a transitional unity government to take power in Syria.
"What we have done here is to strip away the fiction that he and those with blood on their hands can stay in power," Clinton said.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday drew a contrast between Syrian President Bashir Assad and his late father and predecessor, and said U.S. lawmakers who recently have visited Damascus regarded him as a “reformer.”
She made the startling comment while explaining why the United States will not intervene on behalf of Syrian civilians revolting against the regime as it has done in the case of Libya.
To date opposition groups claim more than 14,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian rule began in March 2011.
"Assad will still have to go," Clinton told a news conference after international mediator Kofi Annan announced that major powers including Russia and the United States had reached a deal that calls for a transitional unity government to take power in Syria.
"What we have done here is to strip away the fiction that he and those with blood on their hands can stay in power," Clinton said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-syria-crisis-clintonbre85t0i7-20120630,0,3663140.story
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But, but, but, you said in 2011 that he was a reformer.....
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday drew a contrast between Syrian President Bashir Assad and his late father and predecessor, and said U.S. lawmakers who recently have visited Damascus regarded him as a “reformer.”
She made the startling comment while explaining why the United States will not intervene on behalf of Syrian civilians revolting against the regime as it has done in the case of Libya.
To date opposition groups claim more than 14,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian rule began in March 2011.
