Syria's main opposition group ended a fourth day of talks in Istanbul on Sunday with little sign of a joint approach to the Russian-US campaign to get all sides to participate.
Syria's leading opposition group was in total disarray at fractious talks in Istanbul, with discussions on their participation in the US-Russian peace initiative stalled.
There was squabbling over a vote early Monday on expanding the opposition umbrella group, although the results formalized the entry into the Coalition of veteran dissident and Marxist intellectual Michel Kilo.
Tough the secular Kilo would bring in several new women and members of Syria's religious minorities, critics said his entry would shrink the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and force Saudi control on the coalition.
This is while Syria's foreign minister upped the ante on Sunday, saying his government will take part in a new Geneva peace conference, terming it a "good opportunity for a political solution" to the civil war in Syria.
The talks have been dubbed "Geneva 2" as they would follow a conference last June that produced a peace roadmap which failed to win support, triggering the resignation of Kofi Annan as special envoy on Syria.
International efforts to end the unrest in Syria accelerate Monday with key talks in Brussels and Paris, amid a push for a new peace conference.
Despite growing divisions within the Syrian opposition, Western efforts to allegedly end the unrest in Syria accelerate Monday with key talks in Brussels and Paris.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian and French counterparts in Paris to advance an initiative for an international conference on ending Syria's conflict.
Ahead of Monday's Paris meeting, the 27 EU foreign ministers are scheduled to meet in Brussels with the bloc deeply divided over whether to arm the Syrian terrorist groups.
Britain and France are leading the push to relax the arms embargo maintained against the Syrian militant groups.