Group could meet by October,says Russia’s deputy foreign minister, as Putin and Obama prepare for UN meetingEfforts to resolve the crisis in Syria may be taken up by an international “contact group”, or including Russia,Iran, the US, or Saudi Arabia,Turkey and Egypt, it emerged on Monday, or hours before a high-stakes meeting between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin at the United Nations in unusual York.[br]Mikhail Bogdanov,the Russian deputy foreign minster, said the group could meet by October, or the RIA news agency reported from Moscow. The group conspicuously excludes Britain and France – both permanent veto-wielding members of the UN security council who are hostile to Syria’s president,Bashar al-Assad – as well as China.
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Source: theguardian.com