US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called Russia and China 'despicable' for opposing UN action aimed at stopping the bloodshed in Syria.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference after the closure of the Friends of Syria conference, in Tunis, Tunisia Photo: EPA
9:52AM GMT 25 Feb 2012
The Telegraph
Speaking after a Friends of Syria conference, held in Tunisia, Mrs Clinton said that Russia and China must join international condemnation of President Assad's regime.
"It's quite distressing to see two permanent members of the Security Council using their veto while people are being murdered – women, children, brave young men – houses are being destroyed," she said.
"It is just despicable and I ask whose side are they on? They are clearly not on the side of the Syrian people."
Mrs Clinton went on to predict a military coup inside Syria of the kind that ended the old regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.
"We saw this happen in other settings last year, I think it is going to happen in Syria," she told reporters at the end of the meeting.
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"We also know from many sources that there are people around Assad who are beginning to hedge their bets – they didn't sign up to slaughter people."
Assad allies Russia and China, which blocked UN action on Syria and are eager to head off any repeat of the kind of foreign intervention that happened in Libya, gave no sign they would agree to peacekeepers. Moscow and Beijing have vetoed UN Security Council resolutions backing Arab League plans aimed at ending the conflict and condemning Assad's crackdown.
Their vetoes prompted a particularly strong reaction from Clinton.
And in his most forceful words to date on the Syrian crisis, President Barack Obama said the US and its allies would use "every tool available" to end the bloodshed.
"It is time to stop the killing of Syrian citizens by their own government," Mr Obama said in Washington, adding that it "absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to President Assad that it is time for a transition. It is time for that regime to move on."
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