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Syrian opposition coordinates position in Cairo ahead of Moscow meeting

Xinhua, January 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Representatives of Syria's opposition met here Thursday to coordinate their stances ahead of a meeting on the Syrian crisis scheduled for Jan. 28 in Moscow.

The main goal of the gathering is to try to reach a common vision to end the four-year civil war in Syria, said Aref Dalila, from the Damascus-based National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change.

The three-day meeting was called by the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA), a civil society organization.

Amin Shalabi, executive director of ECFA, said no mediators would be present at the meeting, describing it as a platform for Syrian dialogue among opposition forces.

He stressed that Egypt is interested finding an end to the Syria conflict through peaceful, political means.

Since 2011, tens of thousands of Syrians have been killed and millions others displaced in the bloody civil war.

The situation worsened further with extremist Islamist militants' advances in much of Syria and neighboring Iraq. Endit