<blockquote>'Russia abstained on the latest resolution. It is an explicit message to the Syrian President: reforms, end of violence, free elections.'
- Mikhail Margelov (the head of Russia’s Upper House Committee for International Affairs) (
Source, 23/11/2011)</blockquote>
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(The League) ‘..no place for authoritarian regimes..’ - President Abdullah Gul</blockquote>