U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks during a press conference after his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the government house in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. Brahimi warned on Friday in Damascus that there can be no peace talks without the opposition while making yet another plea for both sides in the civil war to come to the negotiating table in Geneva later this month. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)