FRANCE: No point in siding with Assad says British Foreign Secretary William Hague

Record ID: 281018

  • Title: FRANCE: No point in siding with Assad says British Foreign Secretary William Hague
  • Date: 4th July 2012
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  • Embargoed: 19th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA6PI2721VG1V55W01CC5PR4VZP
  • Story Text: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday that Russia needed to understand that siding with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was futile as the
    West tries to bring the conflict in Syria to an end.
    "Russia must understand that the situation in Syria is heading towards a collapse and to terrible and greater violence and a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation," Hague told a news conference.
    He said that siding with al-Assad, describing the Syrian regime as "doomed and failed", and calling once more for a peaceful conclusion to the crisis.
    Hague was speaking after meeting his French counterpart Laurent Fabius and ahead of a meeting of the Firends of Syria scheduled on Friday in the French capital to which Russia said they would not be represented.
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