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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Syria - Opposition will not attend peace talks 22.10.2013

Syrian opposition will not attend peace talks

Syrian National Coalition says it will lose credibility if it attends Geneva talks

Foreign ministers conduct a meeting of the ‘London 11’, from the Friends of Syria Core Group, in Lancaster House  in London, England. Photograph:  Oli Scarff - WPA Pool /Getty Images
Foreign ministers conduct a meeting of the ‘London 11’, from the Friends of Syria Core Group, in Lancaster House in London, England. Photograph: Oli Scarff - WPA Pool /Getty Images
   
Syrian National Coalition president Ahmad Jarba will tell Western and Arab allies today that the opposition will not attend proposed peace talks in Geneva unless their goal is president Bashar al-Assad’s removal from power.
According to a text of a speech Mr Jarba will make to a Friends of Syria meeting in London, Mr Jarba said the Syrian opposition risks losing credibility if it yields to international pressure to go to Geneva without achieving the uprising’s goal of ousting Assad.

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