Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, welcomes a delegation headed by a leader of the Syrian National Council (SNC), Abdulbaset Sieda, right, in Moscow, Russia. Nawaf Fares,Syria’s first ambassador to Iraq, is the most senior diplomat to abandon the regime.

First published in the July 12, 2012, 11:56 a.m. edition

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