UK urges Syria opposition to join Geneva peace talks
Syria’s moderate opposition has been advised to “commit itself fully” to planned peace talks, UK Foreign Secretary 
William Hague has said after talks with opposition officials in London.
He was speaking after Arab and Western foreign ministers had gathered to meet Syrian opposition officials. Planned talks in Geneva next month offered Syrians the “best hope to improve their lives”, Mr. Hague said. He also said that bolstering Syria’s moderate opposition was crucial to excluding extremists from power in the war-gripped country.
A key group in Syria’s main opposition alliance has threatened to boycott the planned meeting, dubbed Geneva II. The Syrian National Council (SNC) has been unwilling to talk to representatives of Bashar al-Assad’s government. Ministers believe unity is vital among the fractured groups of Syria’s armed and political opposition if peace talks are to have any chance of success.
