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4 weeks 2 days ago - United States

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is preparing for the potential failure of former UN chief Kofi Annan's plan to end the violence in Syria and will take additional steps against the Syrian government if it does.

Clinton on Tuesday condemned reports that UN ceasefire monitors have been unable to do their job properly and that violence is continuing. She said the US and its allies are committed to Annan's plan and want it to succeed. But she said there is no faith that President Assad's government will comply with it.

Anticipating failure, Clinton said work was under way to come up with additional US sanctions to further punish and isolate the Assad regime.

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5 weeks 8 hours ago - United States
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the UN Security Council to adopt a global arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria to reinforce existing Western embargoes if the country fails to abide by a cease-fire designed to end 13 months of bloodshed.
 
Clinton stopped short of calling for outside military intervention in Syria but said it was time to impose more consequential measures on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
 
"We have to keep Assad off balance by leaving options on the table,'' she told a Paris meeting of top Western and Arab diplomats from the so-called "Friends of Syria'' group.
 
Clinton's address made clear the U.S. has little faith in the success of special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan. But although US policy has amounted to an acknowledgment that Assad is unlikely to be dislodged, the UN resolution Clinton seeks could strengthen Syrian rebels fighting the Syrian strongman.
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5 weeks 2 days ago - Syria

 

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to attend talks in Paris on Thursday as part of international efforts to end the violence in Syria, a US official said Wednesday. "We're now expecting this meeting will happen and she will be there," a senior State Department official told reporters traveling with Clinton from Brasilia to Brussels.

[Source: AFP]

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6 weeks 1 day ago - Syria

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she is alarmed about the "ongoing violence" in Syria on the eve of a ceasefire deadline.

In remarks to the Group of Eight foreign ministers, she also voiced concern about the problems facing UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan as he tries to get Syria to implement his peace plan that calls for a ceasefire on Thursday. [AFP]

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7 weeks 17 hours ago - US

United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has said the United States does not seek permanent bases in Afghanistan.

Speaking at a dinner in the southern state of Virginia, Clinton said: "We anticipate that a small number of forces will remain at the invitation of the Afghan government for the purpose of training, advising and assisting Afghan forces and continuing to pursue counter-terrorism operations".

Responding to fears of the impact that permanent US bases would have on the central Asian nation's neighbours, namely Pakistan and Iran, Clinton stated "we do not seek permanent American military bases in Afghanistan or a presence that is considered a threat to neighbors which leads to instability that threatens the gains that have been made in Afghanistan".

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7 weeks 4 days ago - Syria

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be "mistaken" if he thinks he can defeat the opposition against him.

"If Assad continues as he has to fail to end the violence, ... then it is unlikely he is going to ever agree" to implement the peace plan he agreed to with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, Clinton told a press conference.

"Because it's a clear signal that he wants wait to see whether he has totally suppressed the opposition," Clinton said. "I think he would be mistaken to believe that."

"My reading is that the opposition is gaining in intensity, not losing it," Clinton told a press conference.

Tags Bashar al Assad, Hillary Clinton, Syria protests, UN Arab League envoy Kofi Annan
7 weeks 4 days ago - Istanbul

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on Sunday to halt operations targeting civilians, or face "serious consequences".

  
"Our message must be clear to those who give the orders and those who carry them out: Stop killing your fellow citizens or you will face serious consequences," Clinton said in prepared remarks at a conference on the Syrian conflict in Istanbul.

 
Clinton said the United States was providing communications equipment to Syria's civilian opposition. She added that despite accepting a new peace plan proposed by UN-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, Assad's government appeared to have broken its promises.

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7 weeks 4 days ago - Syria

Dozens of countries are making another push to isolate the Syrian regime at a meeting in Istanbul that is expected to focus on encouraging Syria's opposition to unite and seeking ways to deliver humanitarian aid to beleaguered civilians.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is among those attending the "Friends of the Syrian People" conference Sunday.

However, China, Russia and Iran are not at the meeting in a sign of global division over how to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

Activists reported fresh violence in Syria on Saturday. A peace plan by international envoy Kofi Annan has so far failed to take hold.

The United Nations estimates more than 9,000 people have been killed since the uprising to oust President Bashar Assad began a year ago. [AP]

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7 weeks 5 days ago - Syria

Representatives from 70 European, Arab and other countries are meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday to look at ways of supporting the Syrian opposition and applying further international pressure on the Assad regime to end a deadly crackdown on protests.

Calling for tighter sanctions and for ways to hold Syrian leaders to account for abuses, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that the US focus in Istanbul will be to "intensify" the array of US, European, Canadian, Arab and Turkish sanctions on Syria.

She said to look at sending more humanitarian aid to the needy, despite Syrian efforts to block it.

Tags Bashar al Assad, Friends of Syria, Hillary Clinton
7 weeks 6 days ago - Syria

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state met on Friday in Riyadh to discuss Syria and other regional issues [AFP]

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