06/11/2013 10:53
Syria peace conference delayed
The UN-Arab League envoy on Syria has said that a peace conference he had hoped to hold in Geneva this month has been delayed but he is still "striving" for a summit by the end of the year, the BBC reported.
Lakhdar Brahimi said after a day of meetings with senior diplomats that he was not able to announce a date.
Attempts to set up a conference have been going on for months amid disputes over who should attend and its agenda.
Mr Brahimi said he would meet US and Russian diplomats again on 25 November.
"We were hoping that we'd be in a position to announce a date today, unfortunately we're not," he told reporters.
"But we're still hoping that we'll be able to have the conference before the end of the year."
The envoy added that "nothing dramatic" had happened at Tuesday's talks and the failure to agree a date had been expected for several weeks.