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Syrian minister says government will attend peace talks - live updates

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Two big announcements via the Associated Press Beirut bureau. Representatives of the Assad regime plan to attend peace talksanticipated next month for Geneva, foreign minister Walid al-Moallem has said in a TV interview Wednesday.
But the terms of the Syrian participation appear to be definitively at odds with the opposition demand that Assad be removed from power; according to the AP report, Moallem said that Assad would remain Syria's president until 2014 elections – and may run again:
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[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Seems that Assad plans to stay in power, may or may not run for reelection (if you can call the elections that) and that the Syrian government will attend peace talks, but their demands seems to be different form those of the [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]opposition[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] and the US. [/FONT]
 
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