Leaders clash at Syria peace summit: what did they say?

Syrian government and opposition point fingers, as allies told they have 'blood on their hands'

Ban Ki-moon
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THE Syria peace conference, dubbed Geneva II, has exposed deep rifts over the future of the country and its president Bashar al-Assad. As the conference got under way in Switzerland today, there were "some extraordinarily ill-tempered scenes", reports the BBC, with neither the Syrian regime nor the opposition indicating that any compromise was in sight.

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