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Syrian opposition coalition leader "receives an invitation to visit Moscow"
آخر تحديث: السبت، 2 فبراير/ شباط، 2013، 17:38 GMT
Khatib met with Vice President Biden before his meeting with Lavrov.Russia has said it will remain in constant contact with the Syrian opposition.That came after a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, President of the National Coalition Syrian opposition Maaz Khatib, who received an invitation to visit Moscow for talks on the Syrian crisis.Khatib said, speaking to Reuters news agency that he had received "clear call" the Russian foreign minister to visit the Russian capital, which is developed in Moscow's relations with the Syrian opposition could pave the way to a solution to the Syrian crisis.Khatib said after his meeting with Lavrov said that "Russia's a certain vision, but we welcome the negotiations to ease the crisis, and there are many details need to be discussed."The meeting took place, which is the first between the two men since the election Khatib at the end of 2012 as President of the Syrian opposition coalition, on the sidelines of the conference on security in Munich.Khatib also met with Vice President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the International Conference on Security in Munich, Germany.Biden stressed the need for the departure of Assad to put an end to the conflict in Syria.Says BBC correspondent in Munich, there were indications at the beginning of a change in the Russian position, with that Moscow does not agree with vision with other members of the Security Council on ways to settle the conflict in Syria.Intensive meetings
"Russia a certain vision, but we welcome the negotiations to ease the crisis, and there are many details should be discussed "President of the National Coalition Syrian opposition Maaz KhatibReuters quoted a diplomatic source as testimony that the President of the National Coalition will also meet Syrian and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Saturday on the sidelines of the conference itself.The source said that the talks on Syria intensified, the Iranians have entered, and let's see how it will end? ".Lavrov met on the sidelines of the conference also UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.Observers point out that the Americans and the Russians are trying to narrow their differences on the conflict in Syria, on the sidelines of the Munich conference.Biden was criticized the absence of international agreement on how to resolve the Syrian crisis and particularly between Washington and Moscow, stressing that no one can dispute that "the worsening plight experienced by the Syrian people and the responsibility of the international community in the face of such adversity."He Biden Saturday in Munich that "major differences" remain between the United States and Russia on Syria among the files of a major international, hoping to strengthen the international community's support for the Syrian opposition to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, who "no longer able to lead the country" as he put it.And turn over Lavrov in a speech after the U.S. official, the wish to meet the working group on Syria, led by Brahimi again to seek to reach an interim solution, saying it could "make progress."But on the ground, has reported to the Local Coordination Committees opposition in Syria killed more than seventy people today, mostly in Damascus and its countryside, Aleppo.There was no BBC verify these figures from independent sources.
He also announced the control of opposition fighters on a mission in neighborhoods south of Aleppo, a neighborhood of Sheikh Said, which may provide the opposition control of the port to the airport Aleppo. But coordinating committees confirmed that regular troops trying to restore the neighborhood.
