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Article posted: 12/14/2012 9:07 AM

Russia backtracks on statement about Assad’s fall

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Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil smiles as answer to a question during a new conference who in Moscow on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Jamil came to meet with Mikhail Bogdanovv and his boss, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia issued a clumsy denial Friday of a statement from its point man on Syria, who said a day earlier that Syrian President Bashar Assad is losing control of the country. The Foreign Ministry insisted it is not changing its stance on the embattled Syrian regime.

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