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Syria opp. says plans to form govt.

Syria opp. says plans to form govt.
The Western-backed so-called Syrian National Coalition says it plans to form a government to run “liberated areas” of the country, as violence rages on in the crisis-hit Arab state.

Syrian security agents carry a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, on February 21, 2013.
“We agreed to form a government to run the affairs of liberated areas,” the group’s spokesman Walid al-Bunni said in Cairo on Friday.

He said that the government will likely be based in northern Syria and the coalition members would meet in Istanbul on March 2 to make decision on the composition of the government and to choose its head.

The coalition said in a statement on Friday that it will not attend several international meetings with key international players in the country’s crisis talks.

It said it is pulling out of the upcoming Friends of Syria meeting in Rome and scheduled talks in Russia and the United States.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of Army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

The Syrian government has said that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and that a very large number of the militants operating in the country are foreign nationals.

Several international human rights organizations have accused foreign-sponsored militants of committing war crimes.
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