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Russia calls for patience on new Syria conference

Moscow did not want to rush into a new international conference on Syria unprepared and risk an embarrassing failure, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.

Geneva meeting looms in Syria crisis

The head of the office of the UN-Arab League peace envoy to Syria, Mokhtar Lamani, says all efforts are now focused on a planned international conference on Syria, slated to take place in Geneva in June.

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