"Syria is ready to take part in the Geneva meetings at the proposed time," and is "confirming the necessity of obtaining the list of terrorist organizations and the list of names of the Syrian opposition groups that will take part," Moualem said.
The Geneva talks are aimed at helping to end the five-year Syrian conflict, which has already claimed the lives of about 250,000 people.
Foreign ministers of #saudi and #iran told @JohnKerry their countries will both attend #Syria talks in Geneva later this month
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High on the agenda is the adoption of a ceasefire plan, which among other things, stipulates defining "terrorist groups" in Syria.
The Syrian government sees all the opposition groups seeking to overthrow the country's President Bashar Assad as terrorists, including those who were represented in a recently-formed opposition council to oversee the Geneva talks.
Meanwhile, the opposition officials have reportedly said that their negotiating team would only be named after the Syrian government announced its list.
Some opposition figures remained downbeat about the talks, which they said are unlikely to open as planned because of a whole array of yet-to-be-resolved issues.
