Diplomats Try To Get The Syrian Peace Talks Back On Track

Report: Syria Peace Conference Won't Happen Before December -- CNN

(CNN) -- December would be the earliest that any conference on brokering an end to the Syrian civil war would happen, Russian state news agency Itar-Tass reported Tuesday, citing a source close to talks among the United Nations, Russia and the United States.

A proposed "Geneva II" conference in Geneva, Switzerland, was tentatively scheduled for the end of November. It had been delayed several times previously.

Representatives from the United Nations, Russia and the United States were meeting Tuesday in Geneva in hopes of ironing out a plan for the talks, which have been held up in part because many branches of the Syrian opposition have said they wouldn't attend, or wouldn't participate without preconditions.

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