Politics

摘要

A conference that was supposed to pave the way to peace in Syria opened in the Swiss town of Montreux before moving to Geneva, with little hope of progress in either. The un secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, invited Iran to attend, then disinvited it when the Syrian opposition threatened to walk away. The opening speeches were marred by recriminations. Separately, evidence emerged of mass torture and killings being carried out in Syria's jails.