Syria's media put differences aside at foundering peace talks


  • World
  • Wednesday, 29 Jan 2014

GENEVA (Reuters) - Journalists and activists loyal to opposing sides of Syria's civil war have managed something the negotiators at this peace conference haven't - talking to each other.

Inside the wood-panelled negotiating room at the United Nations' "Geneva 2" talks, delegates for President Bashar al-Assad and the opposition fighting to topple him do not even address each other, only their mediator Lakhdar Brahimi.

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