Warring Syrians Meet UN After Sparring Over Assad’s Fate
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Syria’s government and opposition will meet a United Nations negotiator to see whether the warring parties can agree to face-to-face talks after voicing deep divisions over the future of President Bashar al-Assad.
The parties, who joined world powers including the U.S. and Russia at the opening session of a peace conference yesterday in Montreux, Switzerland, were to join separate talks today with the UN’s Syria envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi. If the parties won’t agree to sit in the same room, the UN may propose indirect talks with mediators shuttling between the Syrian groups at separate locations in Geneva tomorrow.