Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, talks to U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, left, as they wait for lunch during a break in the peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. International peace talks to address Syria's almost three-year-old civil war opened in Montreux near Geneva on Wednesday with a speech by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, Pool)