[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
warned the Syrian regime Friday it would fail to divert next week's peace talks away from the aim of installing a new government.
Accusing Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
of funding and even ceding territory to turbans in order to fuel fears of turban groups, Kerry said "nobody is going to be fooled."
"They can bluster, they can protest, they can put out distortions, the bottom line is we are going to Geneva to implement Geneva I, and if Assad doesn't do that he will invite greater response," he said.
Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have led moves to bring together the divided Syrian opposition and the Assad regime for the first time since the conflict erupted in March 2011.
More than 35 countries will gather in the Swiss cities of Montreux and Geneva from Wednesday for talks on setting up a transitional government to lead the country, in line with a 2012 deal.