Via Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – An international peace convention geared toward ending Syria’s civil battle will be held on January 22, the primary face-to-face talks between the government of President Bashar al-Assad and rebels in search of to overthrow him, the United Nations said on Monday. The United International locations is hoping for a peaceable transition in Syria, building on an settlement between world powers reached in June final year. “We will go to Geneva with a mission of hope,” U.N. Secretary-Basic Ban Ki-moon stated in a remark. The announcement came as Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi met senior U.S. and Russian officials in Geneva in his newest effort to get negotiations heading in the right direction to end a warfare, now in its third 12 months, that has killed greater than one hundred,000 people.