UN leader Ban Ki-moon threw Iran out of this week's Syria peace conference after it refused to back calls for a transitional government to end the country's war.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad will remain in office, and has the right to decide to run for re-election next year, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said on Tuesday.
Damascus "will comply" with a UN Security Council resolution ordering the destruction of the country's chemical arsenal, President Bashar al-Assad told Italian channel Rai News 24.
Sidelined from the US-Russia negotiations on chemical weapons, France is determined that demands for President Bashar al-Assad to be tried for war crimes do not drop off the rapidly shifting international agenda.
