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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Withdraw UK recognition of Syrian Bashar al-assad's government, and to be replaced with recognition of the syrian national council.
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This petition requests that the government, following the line of France and the USA, withdraws recognition of the Bashar al-assad regime, and replaces that with temporary sovereignty vested in the Syrian National Council until such time that free, fair and UN supervised elections can be called.
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