Around 250 members of the Syrian opposition were to meet later today in Cairo for Arab League-sponsored unity talks to bridge differences and discuss a proposed transition plan for Syria. The Arab League said the foreign ministers of France, Tunisia and Turkey had also been invited to the two-day conference, since these countries had previously hosted Friends of Syria meetings. Representatives of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were also expected to attend the conference, to be held on the outskirts of Cairo. George Sabra, the spokesman of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC), told DPA, he expected the meeting to be "successful" and that two "important" documents would be issued at the end of it. The first would be titled "The National Pledge to Syria" and the other would lay down "steps for the transitional period," he said.
