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UNITED NATIONS — The Syrian foreign minister, ignoring the mounting death toll from the government crackdown on dissent, told the United Nations on Monday that external critics were to blame for the violence and for causing delays in President Bashar Assad’s plans for democratic reforms. In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Foreign Minister Walid Moualem sought to paint the Assad regime as having been on the brink of democratic reforms when foreign-inspired religious radicals and armed groups forced the regime to put down the rebellion to hold the country together.
