Reuters GENEVA — Russia and Western powers locked horns over a peace plan for Syria yesterday as UN mediator Kofi Annan warned the conflict could spread across the Middle East and beyond.
Foreign ministers and international diplomats were meeting in Geneva with governments still in dispute over whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, condemned in the West but still backed by Russia, could have any role in a political transition.
“The Russians have set out a series of objections with the current draft. The Russians are stonewalling quite a bit,” a Western diplomat said.
