Summary UN special envoy will on Saturday visit Egypt as he kicks off a tour to prepare for Syria talks.
GENEVA (AFP) - The UN special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will on Saturday visit Egypt as he kicks off a regional tour to prepare for peace talks on Syria dubbed Geneva 2, his spokesman said.
Brahimi will meet Egypt s foreign minister Nabil Fahmy as well as the Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi, spokesman Khawla Mattar said in Geneva on Friday.
The rest of his schedule is uncertain due to various governments being on holiday because of the main Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, but Mattar said "the tour will cover several countries of the region".
This will include visits to Damascus and Tehran.
The international community has for months been pushing Syria s rebels and the regime to participate in talks on a negotiated solution to the conflict, which has killed an estimated 115,000 people since March 2011.
Syria s Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said proposed peace talks in Geneva could take place on November 23-24.
However Mattar said the date for the long awaited peace conference will be announced by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "in due time".
She said the meeting was likely to place in the "second half of November".
Prospects for the Geneva 2 conference remain unclear, with the Syrian opposition divided and due to vote next week on whether to take part.
