G-8 Syria Talks Avert Fissure, Not War

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BY PAUL HANNON PETER NICHOLAS
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland—After holding bruising sessions on Syria, international leaders closed a two-day summit here Tuesday mostly at odds over the long civil war but unanimously endorsing an increasingly uncertain peace process.
Russian President Vladimir Putin put his name to a closing communiqué by the leaders of the Group of Eight, which said the leading nations were committed to establishing a “transitional governing body with full executive powers, formed by mutual consent.”
But the communiqué avoided confronting a fundamental difference: The U.S., U.K. and others maintain there can be no role for President Bashar al-Assad in a future government. Mr. …
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