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Brahimi warns Syria elections could end talks

Brahimi expressed concern that elections in Syria would cause the opposition to abandon talks with Bashar al-Assad's Government.
U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi addresses a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva January 27, 2014. International mediator Brahimi said on Monday that the Syrian parties were still discussing how women and children can leave the Old City of Homs, but that there had been no decision on allowing access for an aid convoy into the besieged city. Brahimi, addressing a news conference after meeting both sides, said that there was an apparent will to continue the ne

UN Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warned Thursday that if Syria goes forward with presidential elections, it would likely mean the end of reconciliation talks with the Syrian opposition.

"If there is an election, then my suspicion is that the opposition, all the oppositions, will probably not be interested in talking to the government," Brahimi told reporters at the UN in New York Thursday, after briefing the UN Security Council on the situation.

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