Syria to West: Accept that Assad is here to stay
NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) - Syria@@@s envoy to the United Nations says it@@@s time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the Middle East into sectarian enclaves.Speaking to Reuters on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Syrian war, Assad@@@s long-serving U.N. ambassador Bashar Ja@@@afari said his president was ready to work with the United States and others to combat terrorism in the Middle East."We don@@@t want any vacuum in the country that would create chaos such as happened in Libya and Iraq and ... Afghanistan," he said. "President Assad can deliver because he is a strong president. He rules over a strong institution, which is the Syrian army. He has resisted pressure for four years.""He is the man who can deliver any solution," he added.ByREUTERS06/08/2025 07:57 AMByREUTERS06/08/2025 05:36 AMByMAARIV06/07/2025 02:33 PMByWALLA!06/07/2025 11:18 AMByREUTERS06/07/2025 03:25 AM
