Mr Assad's exiled foes remain divided, unable to channel a significant flow of arms or aid into the country.
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Rice said the arms deal, along with an aid package for Israel and Egypt, represented the fruit of years of partnership and a recognition of the region's strategic importance.
Russia is already complaining loudly about supposed western breaches of the arms embargo, in the form of military aid to the ethnic-Albanian guerrillas of Kosovo.
On Wednesday the UN Security Council, which had been accused of inaction, called on the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and urged the Sri Lankan government to allow international aid agencies into areas of need.
Secretary of State John Kerry, on a surprise one-day visit to Baghdad, pressed Iraqi officials Sunday to cut off the flow of Iranian arms to the Syrian government and warned that future American aid to Iraq could be at risk if it doesn't.
They come in the form of international aid and assistance, counterfeiting programs, and the sale of arms.
After the talks in Beijing ended, it offered to provide North Korea with aid for its bankrupt economy provided Pyongyang scrapped its nuclear-arms programme.
He was expected first to focus on bolstering the ceasefire, channelling reconstruction aid through the Fatah-run PA rather than Hamas, and on measures to stop arms reaching Gaza via tunnels under the border with Egypt or by sea from Iran.
After the meeting, the European Union announced changes to its arms embargo on Syria, allowing EU states to provide armoured vehicles, non-lethal military equipment and technical aid to the rebels, but not weapons.
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