President Bashar al-Assad has proposed ending Syria's conflict "step by step," starting with districts that have seen the worst violence, international mediator Kofi Annan told a news conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
"He made a suggestion of building an approach from the ground up in some of the districts where we have extreme violence – to try and contain the violence in those districts and, step by step, build up and end the violence across the country," Annan said, according to a transcript provided by the United Nations.
He declined to elaborate, but the statement appeared to confirm an Al-Akhbar report that revealed the details of the meeting, including a new approach to resolve the crisis...
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrias-assad-ready-end-crisis-step-step-annan