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West softens tone before Syria resolution at UN

Drops call for regime ouster to please Russia

Guardian Online
Russia and western countries are locked in diplomatic arm-wrestling over demands that Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, hands over power to his deputy as part of a UN-backed Arab plan for a peaceful solution to the country's bloody crisis.
Meanwhile, protesters flooded towns and cities across Syria defying a brutal government crackdown yesterday to commemorate the notorious 1982 massacre in the city of Hama that killed tens of thousands.
At least 17 people were reported killed yesterday including eight soldiers, activists said.
The latest draft of a resolution being submitted to the UN security council, and being discussed by ambassadors in New York late on Thursday, has dropped an explicit demand that Assad bows out but still fully supports the "political transition" sought by the Arab League. The change is triggering concerns that the resolution could be drastically watered down to secure agreement.
Diplomatic sources said the main problem was Russian concern that the
league plan constituted regime change by another name. "Moscow is looking to fudge this issue of political transition, " said one western official.
Language could be further softened during the negotiations, with Britain and other western countries signalling satisfaction with a Russian abstention.
Talk of a political transition has also fuelled renewed speculation that Assad might be offered exile as a way out of the impasse, with Arab and western reports suggesting that the United Arab Emirates was one possible option.
Similar ideas surfaced about Muammar Gaddafi during last year's Libyan crisis, but came to nothing.
New language in the latest UN draft states categorically that the intention is to resolve the Syrian crisis "without foreign military intervention", emphasising the point to assuage Moscow's concerns about a repeat of what happened in Libya.
In a further change the resolution is less emphatic about holding Syria to account for implementation, hinting that the anti-Assad camp might also need to comply.
Another innovation is praise for a Russian offer to host a conference of the Syrian government and opposition.
But the main opposition groups say they have no faith in talks after 10 months of bloodshed in which, the UN says, 5,400 people have been killed.
The revised draft also removes a call on UN member states to act to prevent the flow of arms into Syria; another clause opposed by Russia, which has maintained the Soviet Union'spolicyof being a big arms supplier to the Assad regime.
Russia and China, which both have vetoes, are also being supported by India, Pakistan, and South Africa, nonpermanent members of the council.