Turkey to host meeting on Syria on April 2
Turkey's prime minister says the next meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group will take place in Istanbul on April 2. Turkey has expressed hope that Russia and China, who shunned the previous conference in Tunisia, would join the upcoming meeting.
UN peace envoy Kofi Annan, meanwhile, said he expects Syrian officials to respond Tuesday to a number of concrete proposals on how to end the violence. Annan, who is in Turkey, had visited Syria over the weekend. (AP)
