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"If people continue to acquiesce with what is going on, and continue to acquiesce with those who categorically refuse to start the political process until Bashar Assad disappears then I am not very optimistic for the future of this region," he said.
"Because these people put the fate of one person whom they hate on top of the fight against terrorism," Lavrov said.
"We have been through this repeatedly. Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went and they ruined the country."
"Gaddafi is the same," he said, referring to Libya's fallen dictator.
