London: US Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must step down, but not necessarily immediately upon reaching a settlement to end the country’s civil war. Speaking after talks in London with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Kerry said he was prepared to negotiate to achieve a solution but asked whether Assad was. “For the last year-and-a-half we have said that Assad has to go but how long, what the modality is… it doesn’t have to be on day one or month one or whatever,” Kerry told reporters. “There’s a process by which all the …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
