Russia has invited the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Britain, China, France and the United States -- to the meeting which the Syrian opposition has said it will boycott. "All other initiatives, like the Sochi meeting organised by Russia, must support the U.N. process and be in that framework,” a foreign ministry spokesman said in a daily briefing. "We take note of the Syrian opposition's decision not to go to Sochi. "We regret that the Assad regime has once again refused to engage in the Geneva process inter-Syrian negotiations," the foreign ministry spokesman said. "He is responsible for blocking peace negotiations.

Source: Egypt Today January 29, 2018 14:26 UTC