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Veteran Brahimi pursues 'mission impossible'The job was too much for Kofi Annan. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former UN secretary general - hardly known as a quitter - threw in the towel in August 2012, declaring that serving as international mediator for Syria was impossible as long as More… |
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No substantive progress on Syria says BrahimiInternational mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said that he does not expect to achieve anything substantive in the first round of Syria talks ending on Friday, but hoped for a more productive second round starting about a week later. His More… |
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Iran can help in Syria talks: KerryUS Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that Iran could still play a helpful role in finding a solution to the conflict in Syria even on the sidelines of peace talks in Geneva later this month. Kerry said it would be diffi More… |
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Syrian opposition wants rebel backing for talksSyria's opposition is edging towards agreeing to international peace talks in Geneva but wants approval from fighters inside the country first to give the process more legitimacy, sources at talks in Istanbul said late on Saturday. More… |
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Syria will attend Geneva talks ‘in principle’Syria's government will "in principle" attend multilateral talks planned for June in Geneva and believes the conference will be an opportunity to resolve the country's conflict, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on More… |
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Syria will attend Geneva talks ‘in principle’Syria's government will "in principle" attend multilateral talks planned for June in Geneva and believes the conference will be an opportunity to resolve the country's conflict, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on More… |
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Iran intelligence ‘marked by differences’Experts see little risk of the West blundering into conflict with Iran through a fog of flawed intelligence despite fresh word of differences between Western espionage assessments of alleged Iranian nuclear arms work. Western governments a More… |
