U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi arrives to address the media before a meeting on Syria at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva June 25, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday that a conference on ending the war in Syria would not take place in July as he had hoped, and called on the United States and Russia to help contain the conflict.
"Frankly I doubt whether the conference will take place in July. The opposition has their next meeting on July 4-5. So I don't think they will be ready," he said before starting a round of preparatory talks with U.S. and Russian officials in Geneva.
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