Intense Pressure: Syrian National Coalition

Syrian National Coalition: Its decision paves the way for the first direct talks between the rival sides in the nearly three-year conflict, according to The Star. The Syrian National Coalition had been under intense pressure from its Western and Arab sponsors to attend the peace talks, scheduled to open Wednesday in the Swiss city of Montreux. The Syrian government has already said it will attend the UN-sponsored talks and ISTANBUL The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group voted Saturday in favour of attending a coming peace conference aimed at ending the countrys bloody civil war . The vote in Istanbul came as food supplies began entering a besieged rebel-held Palestinian refugee camp in Syrias capital for the first time in months, an apparent goodwill gesture by President Bashar Assads government ahead of the peace conference. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.