Khawla Mattar: Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Lavrov: A daylong gathering for speeches by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and more than two dozen other foreign ministers is planned for Jan. 22 at a Montreux hotel. It is to be overseen by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with help from the Swiss government, according to 660 News. Montreux, home of the famous jazz festival, was chosen because it has the security, facilities and hotels for such a high-profile gathering. Mattar said the foreign ministers will demonstrate that there is global interest in solving the Syria crisis and GENEVA The United Nations plans to precede its internationally brokered peace talks between Syrias warring sides next month with a one-day meeting of foreign ministers in the Swiss city of Montreux, officials said Tuesday. The session is taking place at the opposite end of Lake Geneva from the U.N. European headquarters because a luxury watch fair has taken up all the hotel rooms in Geneva for several days, Khawla Mattar, a spokeswoman for the U.N.-Arab Leagues special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, told reporters Tuesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.