US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented the UN Security Council decision regarding Syria.

Al Jazeera - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented on Sunday on the UN Security Council decision regarding Syria:

"What happened yesterday at the United Nations was a travesty," Clinton said during a visit to Bulgaria following her failed talks in Munich with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"Those countries that refused to support the Arab League plan bear full responsibility for protecting the brutal regime in Damascus," she said.

She said the 13 of the 15 Security Council members who backed the resolution sought to start a "process for political engagement that would lead to a transition" to a new democratic Syria.

"We feared that failure to do so would actually increase the chances for a brutal civil war," she said, recalling that Syrians were beginning to arm themselves against the crackdown.

"Faced with a neutered Security Council we have to redouble our efforts outside of the UN with those allies and partners who support the Syrian people's right to have a better future," Clinton said.

"We have to increase diplomatic pressure on the Assad regime and work to convince those people around President Assad that he must go and that there has to be a recognition of that and a new start," she said.

"We will work to seek regional and national sanctions against Syria and strenghten the ones we have," she said.

"They will be implemented to the fullest to dry up the sources of funding and the arms shipments that are keeping the regime's war machine going," she said.

"We will work to expose those who are still funding the regime and sending it weapons that are used against defenceless Syrians including women and children," she said.