French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said he has little hope for planned peace talks over the Syrian conflict.
Mr Fabius said France was working on making the talks scheduled for next month in Switzerland a success, but that there was "a great deal of doubt".
The moderate anti-government groups which France has been working with were "in serious difficulty", he said.
The US, UN and Russia have been struggling for months to get the talks, known as Geneva II, off the ground.