An international conference on Saturday accepted a UN-brokered peace plan for Syria, but left open the key question of whether the country’s president could be part of a transitional government.
The U.S. backed away from insisting that the plan explicitly exclude President Bashar al-Assad from any role in a new government, hoping the concession would encourage Russia to put greater pressure on its longtime ally to end the violent crackdown that the opposition says has claimed over 14,000 lives.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that Mr. al-Assad would still have to go, saying it is now "incumbent on Russia and China to show Assad the writing on the wall."
Read more: Syria peace-plan settled after U.S. drops insistence Assad must go - The Globe and Mail
No comments:
Post a Comment