Syria's political opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National
Coalition (SNC), has agreed to attend next week's Geneva-2 peace talks, to be
held in the Swiss resort of Montreux.
The SNC’s 121-member
general assembly took the decision at a meeting in the Turkish city of
Istanbul.
The aim of
the talks is to start the process of setting up a “transitional
governing body that would exercise full executive powers” to end the three-year
Syria war.
Of the 75 delegates
who voted, 58 were in favor, 14 were against, one abstained and two others did not vote.
The remaining 46 members of the SNC general assembly boycotted the
session altogether.
