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US, Russia should agree on a 'secular' Syria

The objective of a revived diplomatic process should be assuring a secular state, not necessarily Assad's departure.

Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian government's ambassador to the United Nations, leaves after his address to the media following a meeting at the Geneva conference on Syria at the UN European headquarters in Geneva Feb. 15, 2014. — REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

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