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Friday 30 Oct 2015 - 18:56 Makkah mean time-17-1-1437
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New York, (IINA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for "flexibility" at talks in Vienna between the countries backing rival sides in the Syrian civil war. He urged the five main participants, which are the US, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to abandon "national perspectives" for "global leadership", BBC reported.
These are the first talks regarding Syria that include Iran, which is the second country along with Russia that backs Bashar Al-Assad, while the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey insist that Al-Assad cannot be part of any solution.
The four-year-old war in Syria, which began with an uprising against Al-Assad, has left 250,000 people dead and displaced more than 11 million people.
The US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations agree that Al-Assad cannot play any long-term role in Syria's future and that he must be gone. "He will go either through a political process, or he will be removed by force", Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir told BBC ahead of the talks.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said that other powers had realized that there was no way of reaching "a reasonable solution" to the Syrian conflict without involving Tehran.
Foreign ministers of the five participating countries held informal talks in Vienna on Thursday, with the substantive discussions scheduled for Friday. Foreign ministers from the UK, France, Germany, Egypt, Lebanon and representative of the EU have also confirmed that they will attend the meeting.
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