The US has said the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is coming to an end, as Western and Arab nations push for a UN Security Council resolution.
Washington is seeking to convince Russia not to stand in the way of the Arab League’s initiative, to be presented to the Security Council in New York on Tuesday, calling for Assad to transfer power to help resolve the crisis.
“Assad’s fall is inevitable,” Jim Carney, the White House spokesman, said on Monday.
“As governments make decisions about where they stand on this issue and what steps need to be taken with regards to brutality of Assad’s regime, it’s important to calculate into your consideration the fact that he will go. The regime has lost control of the country and he will eventually fall.”
But a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday that the push for adoption of a the Western-Arab draft resolution was a “path to civil war”.
“The Western draft Security Council resolution on Syria will not lead to a search for compromise,” Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying. “Pushing it is a path to civil war.”
Damascus dismissed Western criticism and said
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