By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a man who was wounded when a bomb blast attacked the entrance of the main train station, lies on a hospital bed, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013. Bombs targeting the entrance of a landmark Ottoman railway building in Damascus and a feared security agency in Syria’s southeast killed more than a dozen people on Wednesday, activists reported. (AP Photo/SANA)
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This image made from citizen journalist video posted by the Shaam News Network, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows smoke from shelling in Deir al-Zour, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013. Syria’s 23 million people belong to a startling patchwork of different religious groups, and the three-year conflict has taken increasingly sectarian overtones in the past year. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a doctor, right, treats a man who was wounded where a bomb blast attacked the entrance of the main train station, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013. Bombs targeting the entrance of a landmark Ottoman railway building in Damascus and a feared security agency in Syria’s southeast killed more than a dozen people on Wednesday, activists reported. (AP Photo/SANA)
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it’s trying to broker talks in Moscow between the Syrian government and the opposition.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that representatives of the opposition, who met with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Geneva, “responded positively” to the Russian offer to host “informal contacts in Moscow for the entire spectrum of Syria’s social and political forces.” It didn’t say when the talks could take place.
Bogdanov said Wednesday after his talks with Syrian opposition leaders that the Moscow talks could focus on humanitarian problems as well as some political issues.
A Syrian opposition official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks, said the opposition National Coalition was sending experts to discuss humanitarian corridors with the Syrian government.
