Tillerson: Assad Has 'No Role' in Syria's Future
Source: Voice of America
Last Updated: October 26, 2017 1:31 PM
GENEVA — America’s top diplomat, Rex Tillerson, says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has no role to play in the future of his country and he must go.
In Geneva, the last Geneva, the last scheduled stop on the U.S. secretary of state’s week-long trip to the Middle East and South Asia, Tillerson called his discussions with U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura fruitful. Syria’s civil war has gone on for more than six years. Nearly one-half-million people have been killed and around 11 million have been displaced both inside and outside the country.
Despite the bleak picture, Tillerson sees positive signs toward a political resolution to this crisis. He says the militant Islamic State group is on the brink of defeat and the United States is continuing to de-escalate violence in Syria.
He said the United States wants to see Syria emerge from this war as a whole and unified country — a country in which President Bashar al-Assad has no role to play.
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