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Syria Ceasefire: Has diplomacy failed?

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As the West and Russia work towards possible consensus on the deployment of UN observers to Syria, François Picard's panel discusses what the international community should and can do about a standoff that has already lasted a year, cost 10,000 lives and left tens of thousands displaced.

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  • Monzer MAKHOUS. Member of the Syrian National Council;
  • Khaldoon AL ASWAD. Syrian activist;
  • Steven EKOVICH. Professor of Political Sciences, American University of Paris.

Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Christopher Davis, Pauline Heilmann.

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