CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.N. peace envoy for Syria said on Wednesday that Bashar al-Assad could have no place in a transitional government to end civil war, the closest he has come to calling directly for the embattled president to quit.
A peace plan agreed by major powers in Geneva last year envisages an interim administration. "Surely he would not be a member of that government," U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told Reuters in an interview in Cairo.
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