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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Russia says it doesn’t care if Assad stays or steps down
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn an apparent effort to set the stage for transition talks, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman says that Moscow does not consider it a matter of principle that Syrian President Bashar Assad stays in power.
Asked whether it was crucial for Moscow that Assad stays, Maria Zakharova says on the Ekho Moskvy radio station: “Absolutely not, we’ve never said that.”
“What we did say is a regime change in Syria could become a local or even regional catastrophe,” she says, adding that “only the Syrian people can decide the president’s fate.”
— AP
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