Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will consider a future political settlement in Syria which includes President Assad.

​We believe that a genuine political settlement is the only sustainable solution to the Syrian crisis. The atrocities the Asad regime has committed make it impossible for him to unite the country and bring peace to Syria. Syria needs a transition away from the rule of Asad to a new government, which is able to meet the needs of the Syrian people, and with which the international community could cooperate fully in the fight against terrorism. The internationally agreed Geneva Communiqué of 2012 – ratified by UN Security Resolution 2254 - sets out how this could happen and lead to a process in which the Syrian people could fairly and freely decide their future.