The United States, European governments and Arab states have started to discuss the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad eventhough skeptic,if the defiant Syrian president is ready to consider such an offer, Western officials said on Wednesday.
While talks have not gone further and there is no solid sense that Assad's fall is imminent, one official said as many as three countries were willing to take him as a way to bring an end to Syria's bloody 10-month-old crisis.
Two sources said no European states were ready to give Assad sanctuary, but one official said the United Arab Emirates be among the states open to the idea.
Talk of exile has come out amid building international pressure on Assad and a diplomatic
showdown over a proposed Arab League resolution at the United Nations targeted at getting him to give over power. He has responded by stepping up
assaults on opposition strongholds.
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