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Syria Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem says that his country is ready to attend peace talks later this month in Geneva but the government wants to see lists of the opposition groups who will attend and ensure that terrorist’ groups will not attend.
Syrian state news agency SANA said the al-Moallem made his comments yesterday while meeting in Damascus with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura.
The Syrian government refers to all those battling to overthrow President Bashar Assad as terrorists and has said the talks should focus on battling terrorism.
The opposition wants Assad to step down as part of any peace deal. The UN is urging the two sides to meet on 25th January in an effort to end the conflict. More than 2 lakhs 50 thousands people have been killed and it has caused a massive refugee crisis.