Moscow considers relevant to the plan proposed by Assad, not Brahimi

MOSCOU (Reuters) - Russia said Wednesday that the ideas put forward by President Bashar al-Assad in his speech Sunday rejected by the West and the UN, should be taken into account in research a solution to crise.

Assad "said his availability for the establishment of a dialogue between Syria on the basis of the sovereignty of Syria (...) and the principle of non-interference in its internal affairs," said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in communiqué.

international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi Syria ruled instead that the Syrian president's speech did not advance choses.

"I fear that what is left is in many respects a repetition of previous initiatives that have obviously not worked," said the Algerian diplomat BBC.

"This is not really different and it may be even more partisan and biased. Reforms given time so magnanimous at the top happened. People want to have their say on how they are governed and they want to take control of their own future, "he ajouté.

"In Syria in particular, I think people say that a family in power for 40 years is too long. Changes must be real," said the envoy onusien.

Syrian National Coalition, which includes the current opposition, welcomed the statements by Lakhdar Brahimi, who she said, "long overdue."

"He did not criticize Assad before. Speeches Assad But Sunday was desperate and Li had no choice but to tell the world that this power is that of a family, and more 40 years is enough, "said the representative of the Coalition in London, Walid Saffour.

Steve Gutterman

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