International powers have agreed that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the bloodshed.
The plan has left open what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process.
Peace envoy Kofi Annan said the government should include members of Mr Assad's administration and the Syrian opposition to pave the way for free elections.
Mr Annan called the meeting to salvage a peace plan that has largely been ignored by the Assad government.
He stressed that the transition must be led by Syrians and meet their legitimate aspirations.
The Geneva talks had been billed as a last-ditch effort to halt the worsening violence in Syria.
But Russia, President Assad's most powerful ally, opposed Western and Arab insistence that he must quit the scene.
The final agreement is that the transitional government "could include members of the present government, the opposition and other groups and shall be formed on the basis of mutual consent."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was "delighted" at the outcome of crisis talks on Syria.
He said that the document agreed on did not imply that President Bashar should step down.
Minister Lavrov told a news conference that there were no preconditions to Syria's transition process.
He said that there was no attempt to exclude any group from a proposed national unity government.
Mr Lavrov said that the key point was that the agreement did not attempt to impose a process on Syria.
Meanwhile, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that at least 56 people were killed across Syria today.
Syria's border with Turkey was also tense after a Turkish military build-up in response to Syria's shooting down of a Turkish warplane last week.
A Syrian witness said Turkish forces stationed on the border opposite the Syrian town of Jandaris fired machineguns in the air in response to Syrian army bombardment of rebel areas.
After Syrian forces re-entered Douma, troops carried out searches in hospitals for dissidents and rebel fighters, activists said.
Opposition activists said Syrian forces killed more than 30 people when they fired a mortar bomb into a funeral procession for a man who died in shelling a day before.
They said amateur video footage, posted on a website, showed the moment the bomb hit the crowd.
Another video showed the aftermath - grey smoke filling the air before clearing to show bodies.
Reports from Syria cannot be independently verified due to state restrictions on foreign media.
