France’s FM: Fall of Bashar Not Imminent

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ruled out on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar Assad's overthrow is imminent.

"Things are not moving. The solution that we had hoped for, and by that I mean the fall of Bashar and the arrival of the [so-called opposition] coalition to power, has not happened," Fabius said in his annual New Year's address to the press.

He stated that Syrian opposition leaders and representatives of some 50 nations and organizations would meet in Paris on January 28 to discuss how to fulfill previous commitments.

Source: News Agencies, edited by moqawama.org