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Peaceful solution to Syria crisis unlikely:
Hague
Sunday August 05, 2012 08:03:24 PM,
IANS
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London: British Foreign
Secretary William Hague has described the situation in Syria as
"bleak" and said that a peaceful solution to the 17-month-long
crisis was now unlikely, according to the Telegraph.
Hague said it had proved impossible to persuade Russia and China
to back international efforts to find a diplomatic path to peace
in the Middle East country.
He did not rule out suggestions that former British prime minister
Tony Blair could replace Kofi Annan as the UN envoy to Syria.
"It is a bleak time for Syria. This is, I'm afraid, the situation
we warned about for some time. We won't give up on the diplomatic
work but given the situation we will of course step up our
humanitarian assistance," Hague told Sky News.
"We don't want the situation to be resolved by violence. We want a
peaceful transition in Syria. Sadly, we do not have the unity in
the UN Security Council to put the decisive pressure on the Assad
regime."
"Kofi Annan will be carrying on with this work until the end of
August. Whoever takes on that role, it is going to need some
change in the circumstances on the ground for Russia and China to
change their position."
"If persuasion and argument was going to achieve a change of
position, we would have done it by now. It might only be a further
change of the circumstances - the further collapse of the regime,
greater bloodshed - which brings Russia and China to change their
mind," Hague said.
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