The road to the upcoming Geneva II conference appears full of barriers and surprises. If the leaked reports that reached Al-Akhbar – holding that the United States and Russia have reached a deal to allow the Syrian National Coalition to form the opposition’s delegation – are true, then leading Syrian opposition figures are likely to boycott the meeting.
Syrian opposition sources have told Al-Akhbar that members of the diplomatic team of US Ambassador Robert Ford confirmed there was an American-Russian understanding to let the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces (SNC) form the opposition’s delegation to the Geneva II conference. Other sources linked this development to Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin Sultan’s visit to Moscow.