Lakhdar Brahimi: Syria negotiations encouraging

Representatives of the Syrian Government and opposition groups have agreed to meet tomorrow for the first time ever in the same room, the Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States said in Switzerland after another day of bilateral talks with both sides, which he described as “encouraging.”“Both parties are going to be here tomorrow and they will be meeting,” Lakhdar Brahimi told journalists after meeting with the delegations from the Syrian Government and then with the Syrian opposition.“We will be working on Saturday and we will be working on Sunday. Nobody will be leaving on Saturday and nobody will be leaving on Sunday,” he stressed, telling a packed hall of reporters: “The huge ambition of this process is to save Syria, no less than that.”The envoy said the first session of talks will be “to make sure that we understand what we are doing”, and focus on “practical issues that hopefully will make discussions later easier.”Brahimi said he hoped for a “good beginning” to talks that “will continue until the end of next week.”