Either lead transition or get out: White House tells Assad
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Sending a tough message to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, the White House has said that the Arab leader has two choices — either to be part of the transition or get out of the way.
“President Assad now has a choice. He can lead the transition or he can get out of the way,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters.
Strongly condemning the Syrian Government’s murder and mass arrests of its own people, he said the US has imposed additional sanctions on the regime, including on President Assad and his inner circle.
“We stand by the Syrian people, who have shown tremendous courage in demanding dignity and a transition to democracy,” he said.
Meanwhile, the state department has said that the United States supports a UN Security Council resolution regarding the ongoing situation in Syria.
“We are advocating and trying to convince others on the council to do the same. We believe that such a resolution will bring added pressure on Assad’s regime and advance the international community’s efforts to end the brutal repression on the Syrian people,” state department spokesman Mark Toner said.
In Vienna, the US has introduce a draft resolution which is co-sponsored by 14 other countries, which finds Syria in non compliance with its IAEA safeguard obligations and reporting the matter to the UN Security Council.
“Syria is failing to meet its international obligations on the nuclear front concurrently with its failure to abide by any of its international obligations — human rights obligations — in dealing with legitimate protestors within its own country,” Toner said.
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