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UN mediator to meet separately with Syria sides

GENEVA - United Nations mediator on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi will meet separately with delegations of the Syrian government and opposition on Friday in Geneva, opposition sources said.

The opposition will not meet with the delegation led by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem until it endorses the Geneva communique of June 30, 2012 calling for a transitional governing body to be established, one opposition delegate said.

"We have asked the UN envoy for the regime to sign on to Geneva 1 and we will not meet them until they do so," he told Reuters.