Emerging powers India, Brazil and South Africa urged Syria’s regime to show restraint and respect for human rights at a meeting in Damascus with President Bashar al-Assad, a joint statement said Thursday.
The countries “called for an immediate end to all violence and urged all sides to act with utmost restraint and respect for human rights and international human rights law”, the joint statement said.
Envoys from the three countries travelled to the Syrian capital for meetings on Wednesday with Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. AFP