{"id":53704,"date":"2013-11-26T04:12:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=53704"},"modified":"2013-11-26T04:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:12:53","slug":"syria-peace-conference-set-for-january-22-u-n-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=53704","title":{"rendered":"Syria peace conference set for January 22, U.N. says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/syria-war.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53701\" alt=\"\u0544\u0531\u053f,\u054d\u056b\u0580\u056b\u0561, \u056d\u0561\u0572\u0561\u0572\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0561\u0576 \u056f\u0578\u0576\u0586\u0565\u0580\u0561\u0576\u057d\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/syria-war.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/syria-war.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/syria-war-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/syria-war-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After months of delays, a &#8220;Geneva II&#8221; conference meant to broker an end to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2013\/11\/24\/world\/meast\/syria-children-deaths\/\">Syrian civil war <\/a>has been scheduled to begin on January 22 in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations said Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At long last and for the first time, the Syrian government and opposition will meet at the negotiation table rather than the battlefield,&#8221; U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>While he called the U.N.-brokered meeting a &#8220;mission of hope&#8221; and called on both sides to cease violence and release detainees in preparation for the talks, he did not say which parties will attend &#8212; a subject that helped push back the conference for months.<\/p>\n<p>While he called the U.N.-brokered meeting a &#8220;mission of hope&#8221; and called on both sides to cease violence and release detainees in preparation for the talks, he did not say which parties will attend &#8212; a subject that helped push back the conference for months.<\/p>\n<p>The conference would bring representatives from Syria&#8217;s government and elements of the opposition to negotiate an end to the fighting that has wracked Syria since March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the opposition is hardly a single group; it consists of numerous factions that often oppose each other.<\/p>\n<p>The conference had been held up in part because many branches of the Syrian opposition said they wouldn&#8217;t attend, or wouldn&#8217;t participate without preconditions.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva II is a successor to Geneva I, a June 2012 meeting in which international parties laid out a peace plan for Syria that calls for a transitional governing body. It left open the question of whether al-Assad must leave power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After months of delays, a &#8220;Geneva II&#8221; conference meant to broker an end to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[4261,387],"class_list":["post-53704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-peace-conference","tag-syria","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}