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Rifts delay Syria peace talks

AFP, Geneva
A long-awaited peace conference for war-torn Syria appeared set for further delays yesterday as sharp divisions persisted between the rival camps over the conditions for their participation.
UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi was meeting with a range of senior diplomats in Geneva yesterday in a fresh push to prepare a new international conference aimed at ending the Syrian conflict.
A landmark US-Russia accord reached in September to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal by mid-2014 had raised hopes that diplomatic efforts might also manage to coax the warring sides to the negotiating table later this month.
But a source close to yesterday's meeting told Russian news agency ITAR-TASS that it was now clear the conference, dubbed Geneva II, would happen "no earlier than December."
Geneva II is meant to follow up on a conference last year that produced a transition plan for the war-ravaged country which was never implemented in a bid to end a conflict that has already killed more than 120,000 people and forced millions to flee their homes.
The fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains the main sticking point, with an ever more splintered opposition refusing to attend unless Assad's resignation is put up for discussion - a
demand rejected by Damascus. It also said they will not accept the presence of Iran in the meeting.
Cash crunch threatens arms mission
The international body tasked with eliminating Syria's chemical weapons has raised only enough money so far to fund its mission through this month, and more cash will have to be found soon to pay for the destruction of poison gas stocks next year.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which won the Nobel Peace Prize last month, is overseeing the destruction of Syria's nerve agent stocks under a US-Russian agreement reached in September. It has so far raised about 10 million euros for the task.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad says the total cost could be $ 1 billion, although experts say it is likely to be lower, running into the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on where and how the chemical arms are destroyed.
By the end of next week, the OPCW and Syria must agree to a detailed plan of destruction, explaining in detail how and where to destroy the poisons, including mustard gas, sarin and possibly VX.
The OPCW said last week its teams had inspected 21 out of 23 chemical weapons sites across the country, meeting a key November 1 deadline. Two other sites were too dangerous to reach for inspection, but critical equipment had already been moved to other sites that experts had