DHAKA: Syrian deputy prime minister Qadri Jamil said on Thursday that a long-delayed international conference aimed to bring the Syrian government and opposition together to seek an end to the country’s civil war is scheduled to be held Nov. 23-24.

Jamil named the dates when he was asked at a news conference in Moscow whether plans for the ‘Geneva 2’ conference, reports The Jerusalem Post.

Russia and the United States have been trying to organise the conference since May. It had been pushed back from mid-November to late November or December.

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