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Rivals agree to meet, finally

AFP, Geneva
Syria's warring sides have agreed to meet together today after a first day of peace talks in Geneva stumbled with President Bashar al-Assad's regime threatening to walk away.
After meeting with delegations from the regime and opposition, UN-Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said they had agreed to "meet in the same room" after failing to do so on the first day of planned negotiations.
Pulled together by the United Nations, Russia and the United States, the delegations had been due to sit down early yesterday at UN headquarters in Geneva for their first face-to-face talks.
But plans for the meeting fell apart after the opposition insisted the regime must be prepared to discuss Assad leaving power.
"We knew that it was going to be difficult, complicated," Brahimi said. "We never expected this to be easy - I think the two parties understand what is at stake."
Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had earlier warned Brahimi that the Syrian delegation "will leave Geneva" should "serious sessions" fail to take place today.
Nazir al-Hakim, a member of the opposition delegation, told AFP it was only willing to negotiate on the basis of the agreement reached at the "Geneva I” peace conference in 2012, which called for the creation of a transitional government.
The regime rejects the opposition’s contention that the Geneva I agreement requires Assad to go.
Expectations are very low for a breakthrough at the Geneva II discussions, which officials have said could last up to 10 days.
But diplomats believe that simply bringing the two sides together for the first time is a mark of progress and could be an important first step.
With no one appearing ready for serious concessions, mediators will be
looking for short-term deals to keep the process moving forward, including on localised ceasefires, freer humanitarian access and prisoner exchanges.
The start of the conference in the Swiss town of Montreux on Wednesday was marked by fiery exchanges, with Muallem labelling the opposition "traitors” and agents of foreign governments.
Erupting after the regime cracked down on protests inspired by the Arab Spring, Syria's civil war has claimed more than 130,000 lives and forced