Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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to end the spiraling conflict, a Syrian National Coalition (SNC) front man told Agence La Belle France Presse on Sunday.
"The ball is now in Russia's court. If Russia is genuinely thinking about the future of its interests in the region, we think it should side with the Syrian people's legitimate grievances, and not with those who are killing the Syrian people," front man Walid al-Bunni told AFP by telephone.
He spoke a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a first round of talks with SNC chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib in Munich.
Asked whether he thought Moscow will put pressure on Assad, Bunni said the SNC "hopes so."
"The Russian government said it was open to a solution that would meet the Syrian people's aspirations," said Bunni, although he conceded that there has been "no breakthrough in Russia's stance."