Monday 25 November 2013
Syria's warring (click here) government and opposition are to meet for the first time in an attempt to halt the fighting that has killed more than 100,000 people....
...He said a key goal of the conference, which starts in Geneva in January, would be the establishment of a transitional government with powers over military and security....
...The UN's goal is based on the roadmap for a Syrian political transition adopted by the US, Russia and other major powers at a conference on Syria in June 2012 in Geneva, in which the warring sides were not invited....
