“I want to be clear on what we have not done in Syria and what we will not do, which is support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Bashar Al-Assad in any way, lift sanctions on the regime, or change our position opposing reconstruction in Syria until there is authentic, enduring progress towards a political solution.”
Clarifying U.S. stance against normalizing relations with Assad until political progress is made.
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