FINANCIAL TIMES: Russia and the US agreed to hold a peace conference to find a solution to the conflict in Syria, even as President Barack Obama said he was as determined to deal with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad as he had been with the likes of Osama bin Laden.
After John Kerry, US secretary of state, held talks in Moscow on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the two men said an international conference on Syria should be held “as soon as possible” to convince both the Assad regime and the opposition to accept the plan laid out in Geneva last year for a negotiated end to the conflict…
The Obama administration, which has been trying to get Russia to loosen its support for the Syrian regime, will regard the announcement of the conference as a breakthrough. However, it could be a struggle to convince both the Assad regime and the opposition to attend..” … (more)
