Syria: Opposition considers attendance to talks in Geneva
Syria’s main political opposition, the Syrian National Coalition, is meeting in Istanbul to decide whether to go to next week’s peace talks.
The coalition is under pressure from the US and its allies to participate in the Geneva II conference, though many of its members have already pulled out.
Some are reluctant to go unless President Bashar al-Assad is excluded from any transitional government.
Damascus says there should be no pre-conditions for the talks.
The three-year conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives.
An estimated two million people have fled the country and some 6.5 million have been internally displaced.
17.01.2014
SOURCE: BBC
