Chinese Foreign Minister welcomes Geneva II Conference calling on all parties in Syria to participate. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said there are five principles for an agreement “the future of Syria must be decided by its own people, an inclusive political

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a press conference in Moscow that progress in the negotiations first if all depends on the parties to the conflict. “The meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Vienna inspires hope, but the most

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon pulled out from an eleventh-hour invitation to Iran for attending peace talks on Syria on Monday after the Syrian opposition warned of a boycott of this week’s conference if President Bashar al-Assad’s main