is how can you expect to make progress toward a political transition at geneva ii it the assad governmengovernmen t does not even accept the purpose of the conference which is what it suggests? have you been in contact with a searing government over the past 24 hours to obtain an insurance that accepts the purpose of the meeting and doesn't the syrian foreign foreign minister's writeup mean that more pressure needs to be brought to bear on the assad government in order to make what akel headway? thank you. >> thank you very much michael. yesterday i addressed directly to revisionism of the syrian regime in its effort to try to divert the purpose which will not be successful. more than 30 nations began to assemble all of whom thus far and if there are more, will be and must be committed to the geneva i communiquÉ. now, you were with me in paris the other day when foreign minister lavrov stood up and reiterated that the purpose of this conference is the implementation of the geneva i communiquÉ. nobody would have believed that assad would have given up his chemical weapons. but he did and the reaso