WASHINGTON
- The United States voiced skepticism Tuesday to promises made by
President Bashar al-Assad to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and
called Damascus to immediately end violence.
Meanwhile, Washington has ruled in the state to provide weapons to the Syrian opposition. After the closure of its embassy in Damascus, U.S. officials, however, evoked a relief to the contours still vague.
At
a press briefing, the spokesman for the U.S. State Department has
criticized Victoria Nuland new promises of democratic reforms made by
the Syrian president three days after the Sino-Russian veto in a
condemnation of the crackdown in Syria the United Nations.
You
understand that the international community as a whole is rather
skeptical when you see that instead of dealing with ending the violence,
Assad rehashing the same proposals he made for months and months and
months, Ms. Nuland said.
Lavrov
said Tuesday in Damascus have had a very useful meeting with President
Assad, who promised to stop the violence from any quarter. The head of Russian diplomacy said that Mr. Assad would soon announce the timing of a referendum on a new constitution.
This
idea has all the appearance of a new promise from the Assad regime of
agitating a piece of paper about an election that can fully control,
said the spokesman for American. We do not see how this could very well bring us closer to a national dialogue, she said.
Republican Senator John McCain has in turn called to consider all options, including that of arming the Syrian opposition.
But the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice rejected this alternative. We strongly supporters not to feed that has the potential to turn into a real civil war. Our goal is to solve it through peaceful means, she said on CNN.
Similarly,
Victoria Nuland, questioned the proposal of Mr. McCain, said he did not
think that sending more weapons to Syria is the solution. But, she said, we are not ruling any options.
Sweeping
a comparison between Syria and the uprising in Libya - a completely
different situation - the spokesman for American diplomacy said that the
answer is to run a democratic dialogue at national level to end
violence, remove the tanks sent by the regime in cities (Syrian) and let the observers return to the field.
Always
about the possible sending of arms to the Syrian opposition, the
spokesperson for the White House, Jay Carney, said his side that we do
not examine this option at present.
We
are considering the possibility of providing humanitarian aid to the
Syrians and we work with our partners to increase the pressure to
increase the isolation of Assad and his regime, he pointed out, however.
Asked
about the possible form this aid, Mr. Carney acknowledged that there
was no mechanism to provide assistance to the Syrians.
