President Dmitry Medvedev told Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday to either reform or resign while warning that Russia would resist outside attempts to force him from power. Medvedev said three days after Russia and China sparked global outrage by jointly vetoing a US resolution on Syria that he wanted to see an end to the violent crackdown on protesters as much as Europe and the United States. “Russia wants as much as the other countries for Syria to end the bloodshed and demands that the Syrian leadership conduct the necessary reforms,” Medvedev said in televised remarks. “If the Syrian leadership is unable to undertake these reforms, it will have to go. But this is something that has…
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