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Russian Foreign Minister: We Can’t Get Assad to Do Anything

Kremlin Fail

The Obama administration expects the Russian government to force Bashar al Assad to make concessions that could lead to peace, but Russia simply can't do it, according to its own foreign minister.

Russia is not able to pressure the Syrian regime to make concessions to the Syrian opposition, at least not without the help of other international actors, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday.

Lavrov spoke at the Munich Security Conference about the recently

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