AMMAN - The Syrian opposition to President Bashar Assad will reject a Russian-sponsored congress of Syrian groups, which amounts to a meeting of 'the regime with the regime', a prominent opposition official told Reuters on Wednesday. The opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) was surprised it had been mentioned in a list of groups invited to the congress scheduled for November 18 in Sochi and would 'issue a statement with other parties setting out the general position rejecting this conference', said Mohammad Alloush, an HNC member.
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