Assad's power growing 'smaller and smaller' - Russia

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Jan 26, 2013

Russia's Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, warned that President Bashar al-Assad's chances of staying in power were growing "smaller and smaller".

Speaking to CNN, Medvedev said:

"I think that with every day, every week and every month, the chances of his preservation are getting smaller and smaller,"

"But I repeat again, this must be decided by the Syrian people. Not Russia, not the United States, nor any other country,"

"The task for the United States, the Europeans and regional powers ... is to sit the parties down for negotiations, and not just demand that Assad go and then be executed like Gaddafi or be carried to court sessions on a stretcher like Hosni Mubarak."

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