Time running out for Syria's Assad: Clinton

Vilnius: Time is running out for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday amid reports of protests against the regime in the second country in Aleppo.

Clinton, who spoke during a visit Lithuania, criticized the inconsistency of the system by allowing a meeting of the opposition and repression of political dissidents. "It does not appear that there is a coherent and consistent message from Syria. Allow opposition meeting in Damascus is not enough," Clinton told reporters after his meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaite.

"I'm just hurt by recent reports of continuing violence in the border to Aleppo, where demonstrators were beaten, attacked with knives by organized groups and government security forces," Clinton said.

"It is absolutely clear that the Syrian government has run out of time. There is no doubt about it, "she said. She said that unless the Syrian authorities to allow a" serious political process, "they" continue to see resistance more and more organized. "

"We regret the loss of life and we deplore the violence, but the choice is up to the Syrian government," she said. "And now we are looking for actions not words, and we have not seen enough of that," she said.

Clinton arrived Thursday in Vilnius for a two-day meeting of the Community of Democracies, an informal group of over a hundred nations, established in 2000 to strengthen democratic norms throughout the world.