Hilary Clinton a condamné lundi 11 juillet le gouvernement syrien et l'attaque des ambassades américaines et françaises. (Images : Département d'Etat américain)
"The United States strongly condemns Syria's failure to protect diplomatic facilities in Damascus including the American and French Embassies and our Ambassador's residence. As we have expressed directly to the Syrian government today, we demand that they meet their international responsibilities immediately to protect all diplomats and the property of all countries. The Assad regime will not succeed in deflecting the world's attention from the real story unfolding in Syria. This is not about America or France or any other country. This is about the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people for dignity, universal rights, and the Rule of law. Despite promising dialogue and promises of change the Syrian government has responded to the people's peaceful protest with more violence, more arrests, and more imtimadation. These assaults must stop. Neither the Syrian people or the international community will accept half measures or lofty speeches. We call on the regime immediately to halt its campaign of violence, pull its security forces back from Hama and other cities and allow the Syrian people to express their opinions freely so that a genuine transition to democracy can take place. Let me also add that if anyone including President Assad thinks that the United States is secretly hoping the regime will emerge from this turmoil to continue its brutality and repression they are wrong. President Assad is not indispensible and we have absolutely nothing invested in him remaining in power. Our goal is to see that the will of the Syrian people for a democratic transformation occurs."