Syria Opposition to Hold Talks with Russia Syrias opposition plans to hold talks with Russia, a long-time ally of their nations regime, a spokeswoman said Wednesday amid UN-brokered peace talks between the warring sides. There is a plan to meet with officials in Moscow, but we have not confirmed the dates, Rafif Jouejati, spokeswoman for the Local Coordination Committees activist network told Agence France Presse in Geneva, where Syrian government and opposition negotiators were into their fifth day of closed-door talks. Russia was already a key ally of the regime of President Bashar Assad before Syrias civil war broke out in 2011, with strong trade ties and a key Mediterranean naval base in the country. With the opposition backed strongly by the United States, an agreement between Washington and Moscow last year paved the way for the peace talks in Geneva. naharnet/stories/en/116314-syria-opposition-to-hold-talks-with-russia
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