( CNN ) -- Syrian government officials will attend the international conference dubbed `` Geneva II '' that is charged with bringing about an end to the violence that has wracked the country since March 2011 , the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Wednesday . Presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban told Russia Today TV on Tuesday that the government would attend without preconditions and with the goal of stopping violence and terrorism in the country , SANA reported . She ridiculed the opposition coalition as a front for Saudi intelligence . `` Who does the coalition represent ? '' she asked rhetorically , and then cited two groups described as terrorist by the U.S. State Department . `` Is it al Qaeda or Jabhat al-Nusra ? '' Shaaban described the Syrian government as a legitimate and elected representative of the Syrian people . In Beirut , Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said in a statement issued Tuesday that Geneva II is the only solution to the crisis and that Lebanon would participate , if invited , SANA reported . The long-delayed conference would not occur before December , Russian state news agency Itar-Tass reported Tuesday , citing a source close to talks among the United Nations , Russia and the United States . Representatives from the United Nations , Russia and the United States met Tuesday in Geneva in hopes of ironing out a plan for the talks , which have been held up in part because many branches of the Syrian opposition have said they would n't attend , or would n't participate without preconditions . Nineteen largely Islamist rebel groups , for example , last month flatly rejected participating . Some groups want Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down before talks . And the Syrian National Coalition , a rebel umbrella group , said it would n't participate if Iran -- an ally of the Syrian regime -- is invited . Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said there will be no preconditions for the talks , Itar-Tass reported Tuesday , adding that preconditions would run counter to plans that the United States and Russia previously drew up for the conference . The United States and Russia announced in May that they would try to bring the warring parties to a second conference in Geneva to implement the peace plan they endorsed at Geneva I in 2012 , which left open the question of whether al-Assad must leave power . Russia 's semi-official Interfax News Agency reported Wednesday that Moscow has invited Syrian opposition leaders to Moscow for `` informal contacts '' ahead of Geneva II . `` Our proposal for informal contacts in Moscow as part of the process of organization of Geneva II would be important from the point of view of creating a favorable atmosphere , so that people can meet and discuss their issues , '' Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters . Meanwhile , the killing continued . A bomb exploded Wednesday afternoon at the entrance to Syria 's railway headquarters in the capital , killing at least eight people and wounding others , the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported . Women , children and laborers who were doing maintenance work at the office building at Hijaz Square in central Damascus , SANA said . A photo published by SANA showed exterior concrete steps in pieces ; another photo showed two bags of vegetables abandoned on a nearby street . The explosion comes amid a civil war in the Middle Eastern nation . The Syrian conflict began in March 2011 after government forces cracked down on peaceful protesters during the Arab Spring movement . The United Nations estimates that more than 100,000 people have died in the conflict . CNN 's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report .
Presidential candidate Abdullah says the government will attend without preconditions . She ridicules the Saudi coalition as a front for Saudi intelligence . Women , children , laborers are among those present , SANA reports .