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Walid Muallem also praised an Iraqi army operation against armed groups near the border with Syria, during a surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday.
President Bashar al-Assad's regime had agreed “in principle to participate in the international conference which is supposed to be convened in Geneva” in June, Muallem said.
“We think that the international conference represents a good opportunity for a political solution to the crisis in Syria.”
Muallem also took a swipe at countries supporting rebels who are locked in a bloody civil war with Assad's regime, saying that “the regional countries that conspire against Syria are the same that support terrorism in Iraq.”
Moscow, a key all of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said earlier in the week that Damascus had agreed to take part in the conference, expected to take place in June.
An exact date for the conference has not been set yet because of what Moscow described as a lack of unity among Syria's opposition.
Officials in the main opposition Syrian National Coalition have signaled readiness to attend the conference, but said they first wanted guarantees that Assad would step down eventually.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are due to meet in Paris on Monday for further talks regarding Syria.
Washington and Moscow unveiled earlier this month a plan to bring both Damascus and the opposition to the table to negotiate an end to the country's 26-month conflict, which the United Nations estimates has left at least 80,000 people dead.
Source: Al Jazeera and Agencies
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![Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem [left] took a swipe at countries supporting rebels with Syria. (Reuters photo)](/cache/multithumb_thumbs/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_03_syria(32).jpg "Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem [left] took a swipe at countries supporting rebels with Syria. (Reuters photo)")