British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Saturday that his government had taken "no decision" to provide arms to Syrian militant opposition groups.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Saturday that his government had taken "no decision" to provide arms to Syrian militant opposition groups.

"On the much debated question of whether we should give lethal aid of any kind to the Syrian opposition, the position remains the same -- we have taken no decision to do that," he told reporters ahead of a 'Friends of Syria' meeting in the Qatari capital Doha.

Stressing that weapons delivery is dependent on the course of negotiations and positions of other states, Hague noted that any such decision would have to be debated in the UK parliament. He claimed that Britain's main goals remain to "deliver more humanitarian aid" and "promote a political solution."

"At the end, there is only a political solution for the conflict. We want to see a successful conference in Geneva," he said, referring to a joint US and Russian proposal for a peace conference in the Swiss city.

Saturday's ‘Friends of Syria’ talks in Qatar will be attended by ministers from Britain, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, and is expected to discuss foreign military aid to the Syrian mercenaries fighting the national army in the Arab country.

Syria was hit by a violent unrest since mid-March 2011, where the Syrian government accuses foreign actors of orchestrating the conflict by supporting the militant opposition groups with arms and money.