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All Syria’s population groups should be present at future int’l conference - Lavrov

"The Syrian people is not an abstract notion, it is not the regime alone, it is the opposition, which has lived abroad for years, alone, it the entire nation"

MOSCOW, May 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and the United States have agreed that all groups of Syria’s population should be represented at an international conference that is planned to be held in late May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday after talks with visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

“The Syrian people is not an abstract notion, it is not the regime alone, it is the opposition, which has lived abroad for years, alone, it the entire nation,” Lavrov said. “A major part of the population is afraid that the regime might be overturned. They are afraid that those who are fighting against the regime might take an upper hand and Syria will become a country ruled by extremists.”