The head of the United Nations says he hopes to have a second peace conference on Syria next month, although much still remains to be worked out.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an interview with France 24 news channel that he had spoken with UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday morning and that "we are targeting to do it sometime in October".
Brahimi is in Geneva along with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who are in talks about how best to secure Syria's chemical weapons.
Ban said details to be worked out ahead of the conference - which also would take place in Geneva - including whether Syria's ally Iran should participate, and who should represent the opposition.
The UN chief is expected to present a report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria to the Security Council on Monday morning.
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The UN inspectors have a mandate to determine whether chemical weapons were used an attack in a suburb of Damascus on August 21 that killed hundreds.
However, diplomats have said the report could also point to the perpetrators.
The chief chemical weapons inspector, Ake Sellstrom, has said he will deliver his report on the attack to Ban in New York this weekend.
Two UN diplomats said late on Friday that Ban was expected to brief the council about it on Monday morning.
