Expectations remain low of a fruitful outcome at the UN-sponsored international summit in Geneva, Switzerland that is aimed at ending the grinding three-year civil war in Syria.
Under the auspices of Geneva II the aspiration is to implement the six-point plan agreed at Geneva I in 2012. This calls for the creation, by mutual consent of the government and opposition, of a ‘transitional governing body which can establish a neutral environment in which transition can take place’ - a phrase divergently interpreted by the major sponsors of the talks.
Some 40 countries (including primary sponsors the pro-opposition US and Syria’s
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