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Al-Monitor Congress Pulse expands Syria, Russia-Ukraine-Mideast coverage

Congress Pulse and "Trendlines" delve into the implications of Ukraine for US policy in the Middle East.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov before their meeting at Winfield House, the home of the U.S. ambassador in London March 14, 2014. The United States and Russia will find it formidably difficult to make progress on Ukraine at talks in London today, British Foreign Minister William Hague said on Friday. REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski/pool  (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3H3AB

Al-Monitor’s Congress Pulse got off to a fast start this week, as Julian Pecquet broke the news on March 14 about a new resolution sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Edward Royce, R-Calif., and ranking member Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., calling on the Obama administration to develop a new US strategy for Syria in 60 days and withdraw recognition of the Syrian government, “unless and until the [Bashar al-] Assad regime and its supporting militias discontinue their barbaric slaughter, systematic starvation and other grave human rights abuses, and are granted full and unfettered access for deliveries of humanitarian assistance, even as other negotiations with Assad’s regime may continue.”

The introduction of the resolution, which even if it passed in its current form would not be binding on the Obama administration, came on the same day as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the Syrian political process as being “in crisis.”

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