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This has absorbed White House energies up to the point where other regions of the world, particularly, our Western Hemisphere does not seem to be on the radar of an Administration working under very hectic conditions of internal and external pressure.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The US and its allies must resist Chavez
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He told Iranian television that it was an "internal issue" which had "nothing to do with foreign countries", stressing that no amount of foreign pressure would make his government change its policy on internal security.
BBC: UN envoy calls for transitional government in Syria
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And there's no doubt that Russia, which historically has had a relationship with Syria, as well as China, which is generally wary of commenting on what it considers to be the internal affairs of other countries, are and have been more resistant to applying the kind of pressure that's necessary to achieve that political transition.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama holds a Press Conference at the G20 Summit