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For Arab League, Syria Remains a 'Pretty Sectarian Issue'

Clip: 3/29/2012 | 5m 15s

For Arab League, Syria Remains a 'Pretty Sectarian Issue'

President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Syria "will spare no effort" to make the peace plan proposed by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan "a success," but said rebels must first cease their "terrorist acts." Margaret Warner and NPR's Kelly McEvers discuss the Syria debate at the Arab League summit in Baghdad.

03/29/2012

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