While this focus is crucial to our work, it can often distract us from broadly recognizing coalitions of student organizations across the country engaging in similar social justice work.
Britain, Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council have also recognized the coalition.
Mr. Obama, in an interview on Tuesday with ABC News, formally recognized the coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
"We also asked our friends from the European Union, who also recognized that coalition as the representatives of the Syrian people," he added.
The United States, Britain and several Persian Gulf nations have recognized the coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian people, but Moscow has so far refused.
Since that, several Arab countries and France have recognized the coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, perhaps making it more politically palatable to provide rebels with the weapons.
Many nations have recognized the coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, meaning that if Mr. Hitto is able to form a cabinet, which is far from certain given the group's fractiousness, his government could try to claim Syria's frozen state assets and other levers of power.
At ASEAN's urging, the U.N. General Assembly has recognized the coalition of resistance organizations as the legitimate government of Cambodia.
This study demonstrated that brief intervention presenting scientifically derived company-specific ROI estimates associated with purchase of a high quality depression product delivered by a nationally recognized employer coalition director had no impact on employer appraisal or purchasing behavior of depression products over two years.
But officials said Britain was likely to follow in France's footsteps next week and formally recognize the coalition.
Mr. Davutoglu's comments on Thursday followed a statement by Turkey's Foreign Ministry earlier in the week in which it urged other nations to recognize the coalition.
