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Reuters reports from Montreux, Switzerland, on the start of peace talks between Syria’s government, opposition and the international community. “A day of formal speeches under U.N. auspices at a hotel on Lake Geneva has raised no great expectations, particularly among Islamist rebels on Syria’s frontlines who have branded Western-backed opposition leaders as traitors for even agreeing to be in the same room as President Bashar al-Assad’s delegates,” the wire reports. “A flap over a now withdrawn last-minute invitation to Iran, Assad’s main ally, highlighted tensions between the West and Russia and the sectarian rift in the Middle East between Sunni Arabs who support the rebels and the Shi’ite rulers in Tehran.”
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:49:22 +0000

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