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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Syrian opposition National Coalition Ahmed Jarba held their first meeting on Saturday in a bid to press for a Syria peace conference.

Jordan's information minister says the pro-U.S. kingdom is eager to assume a U.N. Security Council seat that Saudi Arabia had turned down in the wake of differences with the United States.

Russia is prepared to consider a new resolution on Syria by the U.N. Security Council, if it meets principles of international humanitarian law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with Algerian counterpart Ramtan Lamamra here on Tuesday.