UN special envoy calls for orderly transition as insurgents reach Damascus

A Syrian opposition fighter holds a rocket launcher in front of the provincial government office in Hama (Ghaith Alsayed/AP)

The UN’s special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, has called for urgent talks in Geneva to ensure an “orderly political transition” in Syria.

Speaking to reporters at the annual Doha Forum in Qatar, he said the talks in Switzerland would discuss the implementation of a UN resolution that called for a Syrian-led political process.