Washington: The United States has said that what Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should offer now is action rather than words.
“You know, Bashar al-Assad has been making promises to his people for years, for weeks,” US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Monday. “What’s important now is action, not words.”
Bashar al-Assad on Monday called for a national dialogue on reform, saying that “national dialogue has become the title of the current phase.”
Syria has been facing unrest for more than three months after anti-government demonstrations started in the southern province of Daraa. The protests have spread to several Syrian cities, leading to deaths of both protesters and policemen.
Nuland said that the US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford was heading up to northern Syria to learn what is going on there, as the US and its partners are collecting “the kind of information” that might be needed to make cases at the International Criminal Court.
Al-Assad said in his speech that Syria has always been a subject of various plots before and after its independence, adding that its only choice is to “control the events and lead them instead of letting them lead us.”
But Nuland said that “with regard to Bashar al-Assad’s allegation that what’s going on in his country is the result of foreign instigators, we’re just not buying it.”
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