LONDON // US secretary of state John Kerry said on Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad must step down, but not necessarily immediately upon reaching a settlement to end the country’s civil war.Speaking after talks in London with British foreign secretary Philip Hammond, Kerry said he was prepared to negotiate to achieve a solution but asked whether Mr Al Assad was.“For the last year and a half we have said that Assad has to go but how long, what the modality is… it doesn’t have to be on day one or month one or whatever,” Mr Kerry said.
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Source: The National
