Momentum is the theme chosen for the second Vienna meeting to address the Syrian crisis with the participation of the five UN Security Council permanent member states, major regional powers, and with Russian-American leadership that the two countries' top diplomats Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry expect would lead them to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize within 18 months. This timetable was proposed by Moscow to accompany a timetable of military achievements where ISIS and the Nusra Front, and other groups to be designated as terrorist groups, would be crushed; and another political timetable for reforms, constitutional amendments, and reconfiguration of the regime in Syria culminating...
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