Syria's foreign minister on Saturday said his government was still waiting to receive the names of opposition figures attending peace talks later this month in Geneva, state news reported.
After meeting with United Nations peace envoy Staffan de Mistura in Damascus, Walid Muallem confirmed his government would take part in negotiations beginning January 25.
The talks are part of an ambitious 18-month plan backed by the U.N. Security Council to end Syria's nearly five-year war.
But Muallem said it was "necessary" that his government see the names of opposition groups that would attend, as well as a list prepared by Jordan of which armed factions would be considered "terrorist organisations."
Syrian government figures have requested these lists in the past as apparent preconditions for talks.
The embattled regime refers to all its opponents as "terrorists."