Syria Peace Talks Possible In November

A long-delayed Syrian peace conference could take place at the end of November, according to the country's deputy prime minister.

Qadri Jamil said the talks - which Russia and the US have been trying to organise since May - were to be held in Geneva on November 23 and 24.

"We are closer than ever to holding the Geneva-2," Mr Jamil told reporters after talks at the Russian foreign ministry, but added that the timeframe for the conference was "hypothetical".

In remarks translated from Arabic to Russian, he said there was "no alternative" to the peace conference.

"This will lead to the launch of a political process and cessation of violence," he said.

"We cannot say 'open sesame' so that the political process would immediately start."

However, the Syrian National Council, the largest group in the opposition National Coalition, said at the weekend that it would not attend the talks and would pull out of the umbrella group if any others went.

Syria's military continues to control large areas of the country

The group's leader George Sabra said he would not go to Geneva while the government of President Bashar al Assad continued to make civilians suffer.

The Syrian civil war, which is in its third year, has left more than 120,000 people dead and seven million displaced.

Rebel forces have taken control of large areas in the north of the country but remain deeply divided between Islamist jihadists and the largely secular Free Syrian Army.  

President Assad's military has also continued to bombard rebel-held communities and hold on to its bases, inflicting heavy casualties in the areas it does not control.

Meanwhile, a Canadian working with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights has been released eight months after he was reportedly captured by rebel fighters and held for ransom.

Carl Campeau, a legal adviser to the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), went missing in February. He was handed over to a United Nations representative in Syria by the foreign ministry, state television said.

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