Syria’s regime and Opposition have agreed to meet together in the same room for peace talks in Geneva on Saturday, UN mediator lakhdar Brahimi said.
“I met the delegations of the Opposition and the Government separately on Thursday and again on Friday and on Saturday we expect, we have agreed, that we will meet in the same room,” Brahimi told journalists. Pulled together by the UN, Russia and the US, delegations from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the opposition had been due to sit down early today at UN headquarters in Geneva for their first face-to-face talks. But Brahimi was unable to convince them to sit together, after the Opposition insisted the regime must be prepared to discuss Assad leaving power.