AFP, Beirut, 15 Jan 2012 – UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday issued a call to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his people, warning the embattled president he was heading for a dead end.
‘Today, I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people. The path of repression is a dead end,’ Ban said in a keynote address at a conference on Arab world democracy in Beirut.