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White House: US 'must accept' political reality that Assad is Syria's president

31 March 2017 23:07 (UTC +04:00)

In a daily news conference on Friday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer stated plainly that the United States "needs to accept" the political realities on the ground in Syria, namely, that Bashar al-Assad is the sovereign country's president and leader. Rather, the US must concentrate on ousting Daesh from the region, Spicer added, APA reports quoting sputniknews.

"We believe there's a need to de-escalate violence," in Syria, Spicer noted.

"With respect to Assad, there is a political reality that we have to accept in terms of where we are right now," he said.

The Trump White House blamed the previous administration run by Barack Obama for missing out on the chance to remove Assad from power when that was still a viable strategy. "We lost a lot of opportunity during the last administration with respect to Assad," Spicer said.