Monday, March 12, 2012
Clinton accuses al-Assad of 'cynically' launching assaults while meeting UN envoy
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of cynically launching new military assaults while meeting with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan over the weekend.
"We reject any equivalence between premeditated murders by a government's military machine and the actions of civilians under siege driven to self-defense," Clinton told the UN Security Council.
"How cynical that, even as Assad was receiving former (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Syrian Army was conducting a fresh assault on Idlib and continuing its aggression in Hama, Homs, and Rastan," she said.
"We reject any equivalence between premeditated murders by a government's military machine and the actions of civilians under siege driven to self-defense," Clinton told the UN Security Council.
"How cynical that, even as Assad was receiving former (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Syrian Army was conducting a fresh assault on Idlib and continuing its aggression in Hama, Homs, and Rastan," she said.
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