敘利亞是八國集團外長首要議題

Syria tops the agenda as G8 foreign ministers gather for talks Wednesday in London.

Britain and France are expected to continue their push to lift a European Union arms embargo and allow shipments of weapons to rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Some EU members worry that a flood of weapons would only worsen the Syrian crisis.

Syrian opposition officials are also in London, and are due to hold talks on the sidelines of the meeting with some of the ministers, including British Foreign Secretary William Hague and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Hague says the discussion with the opposition is aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis and meeting humanitarian needs.

The Group of Eight (the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia) will also consider tensions on the Korean peninsula,preventing sexual violence in war zones, cyber security, and issues involving Burma and Somalia.八國集團的外交部長們星期三在倫敦舉行會談，敘利亞問題將是首要議題。

預計英國和法國將繼續推動撤銷歐盟的武器禁運，並允許爲反對敘利亞總統阿薩德的反政府武裝運送武器。一些歐盟成員國擔心運送大量武器只會使敘利亞危機更加惡化。

敘利亞反對派官員也抵達倫敦，預定他們將在大會之外與八國集團的幾位外長進行會談，包括英國外交大臣黑格和美國國務卿克里。

黑格說，與敘利亞反對派進行討論是爲了尋找以政治方式解決危機的途徑以及滿足人道需求。

包括美國、英國、德國、法國、意大利、日本、加拿大和俄羅斯的八國集團還將討論朝鮮半島的緊張局勢、防止戰爭地區的性暴力、網絡安全以及有關緬甸和索馬里的問題。