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LF leader Geagea to US’ Kerry: Don't beat a dead horse

16-03-2015 | 06:53

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LF leader Geagea to US’ Kerry: Don't beat a dead horse

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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea commented on the latest statements of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry who said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria.

“Mr. Kerry, don't beat a dead horse,” Geagea said, addressing the U.S. Secretary of State in an English-written post on his Twitter account.

Washington has long insisted that Assad must be replaced through a negotiated, political transition, although the rise of a common enemy, hardline militant group Islamic State, appears to have slightly softened the West's stance toward him.

In the CBS interview, Kerry did not repeat the standard U.S. line that Assad had lost all legitimacy and had to go. Syria's civil war is now into its fifth year, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions of Syrians displaced.

"We have to negotiate in the end," Kerry said when asked whether the United States would be willing to negotiate with Assad.

"We've always been willing to negotiate in the context of the Geneva I process," he added, referring to a 2012 conference that called for a negotiated transition to end the conflict.

Kerry said the United States and other countries, which he did not name, were exploring ways to reignite the diplomatic process to end the conflict in Syria.

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