"There'll be a careful transitional process".
We have gone through exactly the same transitional process in our country, pretty well unscathed".
Let's go through a transitional process but let's keep a low profile.
According to new research from Pearson, it's the lack of fluidity in this transitional process that's a huge problem.
But the military yesterday said the group had until tomorrow to sign up to the ongoing transitional process.
The military has said the group has until today to sign up to the ongoing transitional process.
We have to find ways to manage the current transitional process so it will not be the end of the nation".
Addressing the meeting earlier, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had tried to insist that Assad and his allies had no place in the transitional process.
This means that proposals like bringing in the UN to help with the transitional process, as some Libyan politicians have proposed, is probably going to be broadly acceptable.
However, all doors to dialogue remain open, he said, and constructive suggestions on how to speed up the transitional process would be well received.
"The Syrian people will not accept giving Bashar al-Assad any role in the transitional process after all the massacres he committed," Hisham Marwa, the SNC vice-president, said in a statement on Tuesday.
