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| Syrian opposition to meet next week in Riyadh | ||
| 2015-12-05 | ||
| More than 80 opposition leaders will attend the meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday and Wednesday. A conference bringing together dozens of figures from Syria's political and armed opposition will be held next week in Riyadh, opposition members said on Friday.
He said the Coalition would be represented by 20 people and that 10 other opposition figures were also invited. Haytham Manaa, co-founder of the Cairo Conference group which includes domestic and exiled opposition figures, said 85 people would attend the meeting, including 15 from armed factions. "We received some twenty invitations for the meeting that will be held on December 8 and 9," he said. But the powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) have yet to be invited because of pressure from the Istanbul-based Coalition, Nashar said. The YPG has been the most effective fighting force against the Daesh group in northern and northeastern Syria.
On November 21, UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura announced that Saudi Arabia would host a broad opposition conference in mid-December. The meeting is part of an effort to close the gap between opposition groups ahead of potential future negotiations with Damascus. | ||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 The meeting was originally scheduled for Raqqa, but had to be moved because of reasons. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-12-05 13:17 |