On
Syria,
Sources tell
ICP Plan is
Referendum
If Ceasefire
by Opposition
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 10 --
After envoy
Kofi Annan
said Bashar al
Assad has a
proposal to
limit violence
in Syria,
questions have
been asked
from
New York to
Tehran as to
what that
proposal is.
Tuesday
morning
non-Western
Security
Council
sources
exclusive told
Inner City
Press it's
their
understand it
involves a
"should he
stay or should
he go"
referendum on
Assad, to be
held if the
armed
opposition
agreed to and
implements a
ceasefire.
"Before
it was
the opposition
saying there
had to be a
ceasefire
first," one of
the sources
told Inner
City Press.
"Now it is
Assad, saying
that
if they stop
fighting, he'd
hold a
referendum...
It's like
Obama."
But
what
to make of
Annan's answer
in Tehran,
that Assad
"made a
suggestion of
building an
approach from
the ground up
in some of the
districts
where we have
extreme
violence – to
try and
contain the
violence in
those
districts and,
step by step,
build up and
end the
violence
across the
country"?
Would
this
mean that
these
districts of
extreme
violence
wouldn't see
referendum
polling? Or
could only
vote if they
stopped
violence?
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