Tillerson: «The future of Asad will be decided by the Syrians»
The US Secretary of State travels to Turkey to discuss the situation in Syria and the fight against ISIS.
The United States on Thursday offered the latest test that the Syrian President, Bachar el Asad, can be free from the crimes committed by his regime during the civil war that ravaged his country for over six years and which began as a result of Manifestations that demanded the end of his Government. «I think that the long-term status of President El Asad will be decided by the people of Syria,» US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a news conference in Ankara in one of his few appearances before the media since Who was appointed to the post.
His statements, made alongside his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavusoglu, are the realization that the Syrian regime has won the war on the ground – controls the main roads and cities of the country – and that the rebels barely have power except In some resistance bags and only thanks to the external support. Both Washington and Ankara, once determined to overthrow El Asad, seem to have reluctantly accepted the continuity of El Asad, or, if Russia consents, a continuation of the regime with slight modifications: a asadism without El Asad.
