Tuesday, February 7, 2012

'I have an idea! "We are going to start a new initiative with those countries that are against Assad!"

"We are going to start a new initiative with those countries that stand by the people, not the Syrian government. We are preparing this," Erdogan told a meeting of his ruling AK Party in Ankara, giving no further details on the move.
"The process that occurred at the United Nations in relation to Syria is a fiasco for the civilised world," he said... ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was expected to travel to the United States on Wednesday for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Clinton said on Sunday the United States would work with other nations to try to tighten sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and deny it arms in the absence of a U.N. resolution.
U.S. officials have said they were now gauging the prospects for a group of like-minded countries to coordinate support for Syria's political opposition, a move that could bypass Russian and Chinese resistance to anti-Assad measures.
Such an undertaking might be modelled loosely after the contact group that oversaw international assistance to rebels that overthrew Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ......

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