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Russia makes diplomacy effort in Syria crisis

Visit to Assad follows veto of UN action

By Nada Bakri

 |  New York Times  

  February 08, 2012

Russia’s foreign minister visited Syria’s top leaders in Damascus yesterday, at a moment when Western and Arab nations are withdrawing ambassadors and trying to isolate Syria diplomatically over its increasingly violent response to the 11-month-old popular uprising in the country.

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