Syrian President Bashar al-Assad refuses to step down and won’t be offered asylum in Moscow to help persuade him, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
“Assad has no intention of quitting,” Lavrov told reporters last night on his plane back to Moscow after taking part in a meeting between Russia and the European Union in Brussels. “He refuses these proposals, whatever we might like. Irrespective of who tells him, Russia, China or someone else.”
