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Baroness Amos: 'Strategic opportunity missed' in Syria
Baroness Valerie Amos says the international community made a "terrible mistake" in 2012, when it dismissed a Russian offer to force Syrian President Assad to step aside as part of a peace deal.
She was UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs from 2010-2015.
Speaking to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Newsnight's Baroness Amos described it as a "strategic opportunity that was missed".
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