e the question on a conflict management guy's mind is if you went to georgia geneva. it if you got what you're asking for out of geneva, which is a democratic transition, would you be able to deliver on what you need to deliver on. do you have the kind of control of the situation that would enable you to be what the regime will certainly be looking for, which is an -- [inaudible conversations] >> this is definitely a difficult task ahead of us. knowing the structure of the free syrian army. ic what we're doing even before going to georgia geneva is to consolidate or restructure the free syrian a army a way that strengthen and create more of a professional institution that is believes in protecting the country rather than being loyal to one entity. i think the change would be the inability to control the extremist groups. like and the -- [inaudible] those groups don't plich it. we don't recognize it or work with them. i think all the effort should be between now and then is to weaken and isolate these groups nap is what in fact we have been doing in coordination. we bel

that is the so called georgia geneva 2 conference, which seems to be tentively set for the third weekof november. for those of you who don't follow it carefully. geneva 2 would be a follow on to the transitional procedures that kofi annan negotiated a couple of years ago. it's a joint u.s.-russian project. it's discussed at great length by secretary kerry and love love are a. i want to ask you whether you think it is possibility to achieve anything significant at a geneva 2 conference now. in that sense, where you support it going forward. and perhaps you could also take this opportunity to does one of the issues that is central to this geneva 2 conference is how can the opposition get strong enough it can bargain effective late geneva and do better on the beaght field? >> well, this is a problem -- it was the problem with the first go around and going to be the problem in geneva 2. once the deal was done with the russians. it was done by two entities who are playing very different roles in syria. and so what happened is general -- trying to hold together what we understand as the fre

geneva next month but rebel groups refused to take part. and he says that damascus is part of a regional tour and already been in iraq, egypt, katar and met the king of georgiasting half a million syrian refugees and the next day he had talks of leaders with the free army in turkey and other commanders fighting against the government and on sunday he met iran's president telling him his country's presence is necessary for the geneva talks to succeed and he will arrive in damascus in a couple hour's time but what is expected from the visit? >> he does have a very difficult mission since the geneva one conference last year, nothing has really changed in the positions of either side and i think this morning the state control department was very clear, sort of saying that he is welcome to come to syria but he should come with no preconditions and he should not represent the point of view of one party, that was basically the main complaint last time that he went to syria. some of the media went further and mocked him as an aging tourist so it will be very difficult, the opposition has said all along it will not go to the geneva two conference if there is no talk