AlQa'dah 7, 1434, Sep 13, 2013, SPA -- U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday hosted a meeting between senior U.S. and Russian officials on devising a political path for Syria to end more than two years of brutal civil war. At a Geneva news conference after the meeting, Brahimi appeared with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who have been meeting since Thursday to discuss a Russian proposal for Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control. "The work you are doing is extremely important in itself, ... but also important for all those working with you to bring forward the Geneva [peace] conference successfully," Brahimi said, referring to the proposed international conference on Syria known as "Geneva 2." Brahimi has been working to make the proposed conference a reality, holding discussions last week at the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Russia. The goal of a second Geneva conference would be to achieve a political solution to the conflict through a comprehensive agreement between the Syrian government and the opposition for the full implementation of the Geneva communique, adopted after the first international meeting on the war in June 2012.
