Washington: President Barack Obama on Friday reaffirmed US insistence that Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad step down, warning there can be no peace there without a legitimate government.
“I think that Assad is going to have to leave in order for the country to stop the blood, for all the parties involved to be able to move forward in a nonsectarian way,” Obama said at a year-end news conference.
“He has lost legitimacy in the eyes of the country.”
AFP
