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In opening remarks today in California, President Obama said something to the effect that we cannot rule out peaceful means of resolving conflicts. Or as his anger translator, Luther might say: You can't just drop bombs every time there's a problem. Well, he'd be much more excited than that but you get the idea? Looks as if the Syrian civil war may get resolved at the negotiating table.
GENEVA — After months of delay, the United Nations said Monday that Syria’s government and the opposition would hold their first negotiations aimed at ending that country’s civil war in Geneva on Jan. 22. But the precise agenda for the negotiations, as well as a complete list of participants, remained unresolved.
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The fixing of a date, which was reached here after a meeting of senior diplomats from the United Nations, the United States and Russia, was welcomed by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He told reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York that he regarded the impending negotiations as a “mission of hope” to halt the nearly three-year-old conflict in Syria. More than 100,000 people have been killed and almost nine million have been driven from their homes in the mayhem, which has sent tremors of instability through the Middle East.
“At long last and for the first time, the Syrian government and opposition will meet at the negotiating table instead of the battlefield,” Mr. Ban said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/world/middleeast/diplomats-date-for-syria-peace-talks.html
GENEVA — After months of delay, the United Nations said Monday that Syria’s government and the opposition would hold their first negotiations aimed at ending that country’s civil war in Geneva on Jan. 22. But the precise agenda for the negotiations, as well as a complete list of participants, remained unresolved.
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The fixing of a date, which was reached here after a meeting of senior diplomats from the United Nations, the United States and Russia, was welcomed by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He told reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York that he regarded the impending negotiations as a “mission of hope” to halt the nearly three-year-old conflict in Syria. More than 100,000 people have been killed and almost nine million have been driven from their homes in the mayhem, which has sent tremors of instability through the Middle East.
“At long last and for the first time, the Syrian government and opposition will meet at the negotiating table instead of the battlefield,” Mr. Ban said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/world/middleeast/diplomats-date-for-syria-peace-talks.html
