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                Syrian Crisis a Key Issue at Arab League Summit

   by VOA News

   U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is due to address Arab
   leaders Tuesday, as they meet for an Arab League summit in Kuwait.
   The meeting comes a day after he said peace talks meant to find an end
   to more than three years of conflict in Syria will not continue anytime
   soon. Brahimi said Monday the conditions for a new round have not been
   met.
   Syria's government and the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad have
   held two rounds of negotiations that ended in late January, but have so
   far made little progress.
   Brahimi told the U.N. Security Council that Syria's plan for holding
   elections in July will likely make the opposition uninterested in
   talking with the government.
   Kuwait said leaders at Tuesday's summit will again call for an end to
   the fighting that has killed more than 140,000 people since March 2011.
   They also plan to give more support to Syria's neighbors who have taken
   in millions of Syrian refugees.
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