(McClatchy-Boston Herald) Roy Gutman - Syrian President Bashar Assad gave an interview Sunday, a day after Russia and China joined the U.S. and other major powers to call for a transitional government with full executive powers to replace Assad's one-man rule. "If the president's departure is in the interest of Syria, the president should naturally go," he told the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet. "The most important thing is that everything should be decided inside Syria, not outside it," Assad said.
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