Free Syrian Army will not participate in the so called "Geneva II Conference", the international peace talks on the Syria conflict, stated FSA General Salim İdris who spoke to Al Jazeera news channel on Tuesday. İdris remarked that the groups affiliated to FSA will not attend the Geneva II peace conference either.

Defending that “conditions are not suitable for running the Geneva 2 talks at the given date", İdris added that they will not stop combat during the Geneva conference or after it.

Among a number of groups affiliated to the western backed FSA, Islamist groups dissociated themselves from the army and formed their own front last Friday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced in a written statement on Monday that the international Geneva Conference on the Syria conflict will take place on 22 January 2014.

"We will go to Geneva with a mission of hope," said the statement which however didn't disclose any details as to who would attend the conference, and whether Iran would be invited or not.