SYRIA'S main opposition National Coalition is to meet in Cairo, a day after its chief unexpectedly said he was willing to hold talks with regime officials.
"This meeting was organised well before the Syrian National Coalition leader, Moaz al-Khatib, made his statement," Samir Nashar, a member of the opposition bloc, told AFP on Thursday.
The original agenda was to discuss financial aid from Qatar but "obviously this will change now", said Nashar.
On Wednesday, Khatib announced on Facebook he was "ready for direct discussions with representatives of the Syrian regime in Cairo, Tunis or Istanbul".
His conditions included the release of "160,000 detainees" and for passports of exiled citizens to be renewed in embassies abroad.
Khatib's statement drew a mixed reaction from the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The Syrian National Council, a key opposition group within the Coalition, rejected Khatib's proposal outright.
Its leader George Sabra "was not scheduled to come to this meeting (in Egypt) because of other engagements but he has changed his plans and has arrived in Cairo," said Nashar.
The Syrian opposition's "ambassador" to Paris, Monzer Makhous, said Khatib had "softened" his stance because "he feels a special responsibility to try to resolve" the escalating conflict.
Such talks would exclude Assad and his entourage, whom Makhous described as "war criminals".
In Damascus, Al-Watan newspaper said Khatib's statement unmasked "the exiled Syrian opposition's divisions" and that the opposition was "unable to adopt a common stance on the crisis and on ways to resolve it".
The daily also said the opposition's differences are a sign a new group "will emerge, one that is more realistic and has more intelligent goals than just asking for money from the West and the Arabs, to build a democratic, pluralist society, where there will be no room for political and military fundamentalism".
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