The Geneva II Middle East peace conference was a United Nations-backed international ( peace ) conference , aimed at bringing Syrian government and opposition together to discuss a transitional government . Lakhdar Brahimi , UN special envoy to Syria , tried to pursue the conference in close cooperation with the U.S. and Russia . It started on 22 January 2014 and ended on 31 January ; no agreement was reached
Geneva II Middle East peace conference
Geneva II Conference on Syria
Syrian peace process