Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility amid the country's brutal civil war.
In a joint statement, the 11 core members of so-called Friends of Syria urged Assad instead to embrace a plan outlined in Geneva talks that includes a transitional government as a way out of the three-year war.
"Elections organized by the Assad regime would be a parody of democracy, would reveal the regime's rejection of the basis of the Geneva talks and would deepen the division of Syria," said the statement, as issued by the U.S. State Department.
The 11 nations include Western powers the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and Italia as well as key regional opponents of Assad: Qatar, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Arab powers Egypt and Jordan are also part of the group, which does not include Assad's allies Russia and Iran.
The statement said that a credible election would be impossible with millions of Syrians displaced.
"Bashir al-Assad intends these elections to sustain his dictatorship," it said.
"An electoral process led by Assad, whom the United Nations
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considers to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, mocks the innocent lives lost in the conflict," it said.