U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba stand before a meeting at the Iikura Guest House on Sunday, July 8, 2012 in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba stand before a meeting at the Iikura Guest House on Sunday, July 8, 2012 in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)
FILE - In this Saturday, June 30, 2012 file photo, Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria speaks during a news conference following the Action Group on Syria meeting in the Palace of Nations, at the United Nations' Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Special U.N. envoy Kofi Annan acknowledged in an interview published Saturday, July 7, 2012 that the international community's efforts to find a political solution to the escalating violence in Syria have failed. Annan also said that more attention needed to be paid to the role of longtime Syrian ally Iran, and that countries supporting military actors in the conflict were making the situation worse. (AP Photo/Martial Trezzini, Keystone, File)
TOKYO (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says time's running out on Syrian peace hopes and warns that the Syrian state could collapse.
Speaking in Japan, Clinton said Sunday that U.N. mediator Kofi Annan's acknowledgement that his peace plan is failing "should be a wake-up call for everyone."
She says last month was the deadliest for the Syrian people in the 16-month revolt against President Bashar Assad (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd). Clinton adds that the opposition "is getting more effective in defense of themselves and going on the offensive against the Syrian military."
Clinton says Assad's regime must acknowledge that its days are numbered.
She says there's "still a chance to save the Syrian state from a catastrophic assault that would be very dangerous not only to Syria, but to the region."
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