Friday, December 23, 2011

'Assad is cut off': Canada imposes new measures on Syrian regime

'Assad is cut off': Canada imposes new measures on Syrian regime

clip from article: OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has announced new measures against Syria's totalitarian regime, while chiding the UN for its failure to act decisively in the face of what he calls clear human-rights violations.

Baird says Canada is freezing Syrian government assets and prohibiting most trade with the authoritarian regime of President Bashar Assad.

The minister says Assad is cut off, that his "disgusting brand of violence must stop" and the Syrian president must go. [read more at link]

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