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Archive Home > 2012 > September > 03 > Envoy defends Assad’s place – for now

Envoy defends Assad’s place – for now

• An objective stance after Kofi Annan called for regime’s end

By David D. Kirkpatrick and Rick Gladstone / The Bulletin
September 3, 2012

BEIRUT — Rebels set off two bombs among a cluster of military headquarters buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, as the new United Nations envoy for Syria pointedly refused to call for President Bashar Assad to give up power.

“It is too early to speak about who should go and who....

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