UN Envoy: 'Everyone Ready to Assist' Syria Peace Talks

The international envoy to Syria is holding out hope fresh peace talks can still take place in a matter of weeks. U.N.-Arab League Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi spoke Friday in Beirut, following three days of talks in Syria, and expressed optimism that disagreements between world powers will not get in the way. "We did not find any opposition to the idea of the conference in any country, and everyone is ready to assist. Surely every country has its opinion, problems, concerns about what may ...

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