MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday it was a mistake for U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to withdraw an invitation to Iran to attend peace talks on Syria, but did not see it as a catastrophe.
Lavrov said the Syrian opposition had in effect held the peace conference known as Geneva-2 to ransom by saying it would not attend if Iran was invited, and suggested the confusion had done nothing to boost the standing of the United Nations.
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