"We must make clear that if the regime does not negotiate seriously at the Geneva conference, no option is off the table, " he added.
Members of the National Coalition are meeting in Istanbul to elect a new leader to replace Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib and formulate its positions before the Geneva conference.
"The Geneva conference held in June this year includes elements that are sufficient for a plan to end the crisis in the next few coming months, " he said.
Mr. McCain criticized the administration's reliance on the Geneva conference as "optimistic to the point of fantasy, " adding that each time the U.S. has upped its assistance to rebels, Iran and Russia have responded with new aid to Mr. Assad.
Keith Clements, secretary of the Geneva-based Conference of European Churches, which groups over 100 Protestant and Orthodox religious groups, says his members must gear up for a sometimes difficult dialogue with Muslims of all stripes, from moderates to militants.
He describes the farcical but tragic Geneva conference later that year that divided Vietnam.
The US, Israel, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and New Zealand had all boycotted the conference being held in Geneva, in protest at Mr Ahmadinejad's appearance.
The Durban II conference last year in Geneva was supposed to reinvigorate the political war that was launched in 2001.
The five-day Geneva talks - officially called the Durban Review Conference - are meant to review progress in fighting racism since a 2001 forum in Durban, South Africa.
Former Arsenal and France captain Patrick Vieira was also at the U.N. conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and he told FIFA's official website the fight was moving in the right direction.
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"Today we are dealing with a weak and fragmented opposition that we must work with to go to Geneva" for the peace conference.
In 1984, he personally introduced at the Conference on Disarmament In Geneva a U.S. draft treaty prepared in great haste for the occasion.
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In 1984, he personally introduced at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva a U.S. draft treaty prepared in great haste for the occasion and submitted despite the fact that extensive work on its verification aspects remained to be done.
The Mission also recommended that the Assembly ask the Swiss Government to convene a conference of the high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and ensure its respect in accordance with its article 1.
During the Geneva motor show in March Mays summoned designers to a hotel conference room overlooking Lake Geneva.
OBAMA'S SPOKESMEN and defenders claim that by participating in the planning sessions in Geneva, the administration is doing nothing more than attempting to prevent the conference from being the anti-Jewish diplomatic pogrom it was in 2001.
On December 16, Vitali Churkin -- a veteran and thoroughly cynical public relations flack for Soviet communists -- used an international conference in Geneva to denounce the international pressure being brought to bear on Serbia and expressed Moscow's solidarity with Belgrade.
Bayefsky reported that at the planning session in Geneva on Thursday, the Palestinian delegation proposed that a paragraph be added to the conference's agenda.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says it is a concern that the UN hopes participants at an international conference on Afghanistan, due to take place in The Hague next week, will address.
The 2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report was launched at the International Conference on Education, taking place in Geneva from 25 to 28 November.
The Geneva communique was drawn up in June during a conference in Switzerland that brought together representatives from world powers that had been at odds over the Syrian conflict.
But prospects for launching talks at an international conference in Geneva began fading after the main Western-backed opposition group said it wouldn't attend as long as Hezbollah fights in Syria and the situation in Qusair remains dire.
In 1974 a conference was convened in Geneva to rewrite the humanitarian law of war.
Will we be living by the values implied in the Obama administration's decision to "engage" in preparations for the United Nations Durban II conference scheduled this April in Geneva.
's Durban Review conference this April in Geneva (though his administration has left the door open for further haggling).
While most Americans were busy celebrating Valentine's Day, last Saturday the Obama administration announced that it would send a delegation to Geneva to participate in planning the UN's so-called Durban II conference, scheduled to take place in late April.
But re-engaging with the council will boost America's image in many quarters regardless of what it decides to do about a related human-rights forum: the so-called Durban II conference on racism, due to take place in Geneva in late April.
The EU has pledged to prioritize helping find a political solution to the crisis, so all thoughts should now turn to making the U.S.-Russia brokered peace conference, scheduled for mid-June, in Geneva, a success.
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So perhaps the conference is designed to come up with some new international measures to combat cybercrime or a new Geneva convention to agree some rules of engagement for cyber war fare?
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