Orr insists he has no immediate plan of action other than getting a sense of the city's priorities.

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But the Department for Education (DfE) has rejected the plan and "set out the immediate action" to be taken by the school in Romsey, Hampshire.

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The talks had been aimed at discussing how to implement a plan proposed last June by the Action Group for Syria, which called for an immediate cessation of violence and the establishment of a transitional government.

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