Interview: Assad says he won’t step down

To resign would be to flee: Assad

BUENOS AIRES:

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria’s civil war but had no plans to resign, in an interview with an Argentine newspaper.

“To resign would be to flee,” he told Clarin when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 19^th, 2013.