United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura (L) shakes hands with a journalist after his news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, May 5, 2015. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it had launched its third major push in as many years to find common ground between the warring parties in Syria and for the first time said it hoped Syria's armed opposition groups might come to Geneva.
A year after the failure of U.N.-mediated talks between Syrian government and opposition representatives, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura is taking a much less ambitious route, sitting down to hear the views of more than 40 groups, one by one, over the next six to eight weeks, and possibly longer.
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