Colt Solid: Russian foreign minister says: Assad won't go

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Russian foreign minister says: Assad won't go

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MOSCOW Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise. After a meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.'s envoy for the Syrian crisis, Lavrov also said that the Syrian opposition risks sacrificing many more lives if it continues to insist on Assad leaving office as a precondition for holding talks on Syria's future. Assad "has repeatedly said publicly and privately, including in his meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi in Damascus not long ago, that he does not intend to leave for anywhere, that he will stay to the end in his post, that he will, as he expressed it, defend the Syrian people, Syrian sovereignty and so forth," Lavrov said.

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Bashar Assad

Overall Sentiment: -0.183987

Relevance: 0.917499

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Lakhdar Brahimi

Overall Sentiment: -0.0823429

Relevance: 0.530603

Sentiment	Quote
-0.33583	Brahimi said that "if the only alternative is really hell or a political process, then we have got all of us to work ceaselessly for a political process."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.33583 Mean: -0.33583 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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Lavrov

Overall Sentiment: -0.170049

Relevance: 0.306309

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0.0431748	"has repeatedly said publicly and privately, including in his meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi in Damascus not long ago, that he does not intend to leave for anywhere, that he will stay to the end in his post, that he will, as he expressed it, defend the Syrian people, Syrian sovereignty and so forth," Lavrov said. ...
0.0431748	"has repeatedly said publicly and privately, including in his meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi in Damascus not long ago, that he does not intend to leave for anywhere, that he will stay to the end in his post, that he will, as he expressed it, defend the Syrian people, Syrian sovereignty and so forth," Lavrov said. "There's no possibility to change this position."
-0.127562	"The price for that precondition will be the loss of more Syrian lives," Lavrov said. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0412124 Mean: -0.013737466666667 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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Organization: Syrian government

Overall Sentiment: 0.2288

Relevance: 0.31394

City: Moscow

Overall Sentiment: -0.121366

Relevance: 0.347452

City: Damascus

Overall Sentiment: -0.227113

Relevance: 0.340557

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Country: Russia

Overall Sentiment: -0.119309

Relevance: 0.304974

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