Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Assad says support for armed groups must end

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, speaks to reporters in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Brahimi has met a senior opposition figure in Damascus as part of a diplomatic push to convince all sides in the country's crisis to attend peace talks in Geneva next month. (AP Photo/SANA)







In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, speaks to reporters in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Brahimi has met a senior opposition figure in Damascus as part of a diplomatic push to convince all sides in the country's crisis to attend peace talks in Geneva next month. (AP Photo/SANA)







In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, left, smiles as he meets with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013. Brahimi met a senior opposition figure in Damascus as part of a diplomatic push to convince all sides in the country's crisis to attend peace talks in Geneva next month. (AP Photo/SANA)







DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian state-run TV channel says President Bashar Assad has told the Arab League-U.N. envoy that foreign support for the armed opposition must end if any political solution to the country's conflict is to succeed.

Al-Ikhbariya television also quotes Assad as telling Lakhar Brahimi during their meeting Wednesday in Damascus that the "Syrian people alone are entitled to draw the future of Syria, and any solution must be approved by them."

Brahimi is in Damascus to try to save faltering diplomatic efforts to convene an international peace conference to find a political resolution to Syria's civil war.

The prospects for the conference appear dim — the Syrian opposition remains deeply divided over whether to attend, while the government refuses to sit down with the armed opposition.

Associated PressSource: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2013-10-30-Syria/id-f5f82da5c1924caabff28274b920d8e0
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