A Russian proposal for a new Security Council resolution on Syria has been dismissed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Mrs Clinton said that it was pointless to pass a resolution with ‘no teeth’, whilst talking to reporters after holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and President Putin at the end of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit.
"We have to be realistic. We haven't seen eye-to-eye... that may continue,"
"There is no point to passing a resolution with no teeth because we've seen time and time again that Assad will ignore it and keep attacking his own people.
"I will continue to work with Foreign Minister Lavrov to see if we can revisit the idea of putting the Syrian transition plan that we agreed to in Geneva earlier this summer into a Security Council resolution.
"But as I underscored yesterday... that will only be effective if it includes consequences for non-compliance."
She also said that if the differences between Russia and the US continued, they would "work with like-minded states to support a Syrian opposition to hasten the day when Assad falls, and to help prepare Syria for a democratic future and help it get back on its feet".
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