The United States is willing to work with Iran and Russia to try to end the Syrian conflict, US President Barack Obama said on Monday (September 28) but insisted there could not be a return to the status quo under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Obama described Assad as a tyrant and as the chief culprit behind the four-year civil war in which at least 200,000 people have died and millions have been driven from their homes internally or abroad as refugees.
“The United States is prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the conflict,” Obama said at the annual gathering of world leaders. “But we must recognize that there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the pre-war status quo.”
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