The Foreign Secretary says the Syrian regime has continued to fire on civilians as it opened the polling booths for a referendum on constitutional change.
The Telegraph
11:24AM GMT 27 Feb 2012
The new constitution will ostensibly entrench multi-party rule, pave the way for parliamentary elections within three months and limit a president to two seven-year terms, a statute that will only come into force when Mr Assad, in power since 2000, completes his present stint in 2014.
Syria's main opposition movements boycotted the poll, pointing out that Mr Assad has shown little willingness to abide by the present constitution, which supposedly enshrines free speech and bans torture.
Mr Hague said: “Yesterday's referendum vote has fooled nobody. To open polling stations but to continue to open fire on the civilians of the country has no credibility in the eyes of the world.”
The Foreign Secretary confirmed that Britain would continue to support the Syrian opposition through peaceful means and played down suggestions from the Arab League about a potential peace keeping force being deployed on the ground in Syria.
“For that to work properly there would have to be a peace to keep. At the moment we don't have that. We need the cessation of violence by the regime against civilians for anything like that to work.”
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Protesters burn and image of the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad. Photo: AFP
Women sat under images of the Syrian president outside a polling station in Damascus
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