Sky NEWS
Updated: 12:49, Monday October 21, 2013
Syrian peace talks can only be held if a 'credible opposition' takes part, an international envoy says, as a truck bombing in the war-ravaged country killed dozens.
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi told reporters in Cairo the talks would be held on November 23, but UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who spoke at the same news conference, refused to set a date.
'It was decided that the Geneva 2 conference will be held on November 23, and preparations are underway for this conference,' Arabi said on Sunday.
Brahimi cautioned the meeting would only go ahead in the presence of a 'credible opposition representing an important segment of the Syrian people' opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
'There is agreement to hold Geneva 2 in November, but the date has not been officially set... We hope the conference will be held in November.'
Brahimi is on the first leg of a Middle East tour aimed at drumming up support for the initiative to end the 31-month conflict that has killed more than 115,000 people.
The veteran troubleshooter has said he would also travel to Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Syria and then Geneva for talks with Russian and US representatives.
Al-Watan, a pro-Damascus newspaper, said Brahimi would visit Syria next week.
Washington and Moscow have been trying to organise the conference on the heels of a landmark deal they reached for Syria to destroy its chemical weapons by mid-2014.
The Geneva initiative was first announced last year, but it has been repeatedly postponed amid opposition wrangling and a dispute over which countries, including Iran, should participate.
On the ground, a truck bomb killed at least 31 people in Hama, a regime-held city in central Syria, activists say.
'At least 31 people, including regime troops, were killed when a man detonated a truck laden with explosives at a checkpoint near an agricultural vehicles company on the road linking Hama to Salamiyeh,' the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding the toll was expected to rise.
State media said 30 people died.
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