{"id":13273,"date":"2012-08-08T02:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-2-clinton-warns-against-sectarian-turmoil-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T02:15:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:15:17","slug":"update-2-clinton-warns-against-sectarian-turmoil-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-clinton-warns-against-sectarian-turmoil-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Clinton warns against sectarian turmoil in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Top U.S. diplomat rejects &#8220;proxies, terrorists&#8221; coming in<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Now is time to plan for &#8220;day after&#8221; Assad &#8211; Clinton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Clinton seeks to bring S.Africa on board with Syria plan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Quinn<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>PRETORIA, Aug 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Syria must not be allowed to<br \/>\ndescend into a sectarian war, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary<br \/>\nClinton said on Tuesday, and she warned against &#8220;proxies or<br \/>\nterrorist fighters&#8221; being sent in to join the conflict.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to set very clear expectations about avoiding<br \/>\nsectarian warfare,&#8221; Clinton said, answering a question on Syria<br \/>\nduring a news conference in the South African capital Pretoria,<br \/>\nher latest stop in a tour of Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who are attempting to exploit the situation by<br \/>\nsending in proxies or terrorist fighters must realize that will<br \/>\nnot be tolerated, first and foremost by the Syrian people,&#8221; she<br \/>\nadded.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. secretary of state made the comments as Syrian<br \/>\ngovernment forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad encircled<br \/>\nrebels in the country&#8217;s biggest city of Aleppo..<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She did not elaborate on her reference to &#8220;proxies or<br \/>\nterrorist fighters&#8221; or name any particular country or group.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Top U.S. diplomat rejects &#8220;proxies, terrorists&#8221; coming in * Now is time to plan for &#8220;day after&#8221; Assad &#8211; Clinton * Clinton seeks to bring S.Africa on board with Syria plan By Andrew Quinn PRETORIA, Aug 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Syria must not be allowed to descend into a sectarian war, U.S. Secretary of State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}