Syria says Assad will remain president until 2014

By Karin Laub, Zeina Karam

Published May 29, 2013 4:00am ET

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Syria says Assad will remain president until 2014 — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights South African Navi Pillay addresses her statement during the urgent debate on the situation in Syria at the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Syria's civil war is spilling out of control and represents a massive failure to protect citizens against war crimes and crimes against humanity that are now a routine occurrence according to the UN's top human rights official Pillay. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini) | Martial Trezzini

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s foreign minister laid out a hard line Wednesday, saying Bashar Assad will remain president at least until elections in 2014 and might seek another term, conditions that will make it difficult for the opposition to agree to U.N.-sponsored talks on ending the civil war.

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