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Geneva, Switzerland (CNN) -- There is no guarantee that a sweeping new international agreement on Syria will succeed in ending the conflict there, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conceded, as opposition activists said the number of dead had skyrocketed in recent months.
"There is no guarantee that we are going to be successful. I just hate to say that," Clinton told CNN.
But she expressed optimism that a new agreement hammered out Saturday would help ease President Bashar al-Assad out of power.
"The new agreement provides vague language which is open to interpretation," the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said in a statement Sunday. "This provides yet another opportunity for the regime's thugs to play their favorite game in utilizing time in order to stop the popular Syrian Revolution and extinguish it with violence and massacres across Syria."................
Kofi Annan, the joint special envoy for the United Nations and Arab League, invited diplomats from the U.N. Security Council and envoys from Turkey, the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab League to the global meeting in Geneva on Saturday.
The group also called for a transitional government.
Annan said it could include members of the current Syrian regime, making it theoretically possible that al-Assad will be a part of the transition.
But Annan pointed out it is the Syrians who will decide the make-up.
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by xuenchen
My concern is if they oust Assad, something worse will take his place like oh say...the Muslim Brotherhood, that now has Libya, Egypt and just about most of the Islamic M.E..
Originally posted by stanguilles7
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by xuenchen
My concern is if they oust Assad, something worse will take his place like oh say...the Muslim Brotherhood, that now has Libya, Egypt and just about most of the Islamic M.E..
'worse' for who? Western interests?
I say let the entire region collapse back into small, ethnically-diverse enclaves, as existed previous to Europe and Russia border-drawing for their own self-interests.