WASHINGTON (New
York Times) — Leaders of the Syrian opposition have put off a visit to
Washington for a series of high-profile meetings, including an expected stop at
the White House, administration officials said Thursday, underscoring the
challenge the United States faces in cultivating a still-evolving political
movement.
The Obama
administration had invited Moaz al-Khatib, the leader of the Syrian Opposition
Council, and Gen. Salim Idriss, the leader of the opposition’s military wing,
to make the trip this week, but Mr. Khatib told Secretary of State John Kerry
last week at a conference in Rome on the Syria
crisis that this was not a good time to visit.
No date has been set,
but some American officials are hoping the visit might be possible in April…
(See my March 5 post, “Obama
to receive Khatib and FSA chief of staff”)
