American officials said today that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the position of the White House in New York, during tonight's meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Clinton, they said, told Lavrov that the UN Security Council must declare against the "unforgivable violence" of Bashar Assad's regime against the Syrian opposition, but Lavrov had the opposite view and pointed to the necessity of dialogue between Assad and the opposition.
US President Barack Obama's administration has lost hope in Assad's promises to reform his rule, and is now calling for him to step down.
U.S. officials said the meeting between the U.S. and Russian foreign ministers was private and did not want their names mentioned.
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