{"id":2012,"date":"2017-12-01T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/damascus-opposition-purposefully-undermined-geneva-talks\/"},"modified":"2017-12-01T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:51:14","slug":"damascus-opposition-purposefully-undermined-geneva-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/damascus-opposition-purposefully-undermined-geneva-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Damascus: Opposition purposefully undermined Geneva talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Syria\u2019s top government negotiator said on Friday his team quit UN-led peace talks in Geneva and might not return next week, blaming the opposition\u2019s rejection of any role for President Bashar al-Assad in a transition.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"74\">\n<p>\n\tOpposition groups met in Riyadh last month to hammer out a unified position ahead of the Geneva talks after the Syrian government recaptured all of the country\u2019s main cities, which gave Damascus the upper hand after more than six years of war.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cAs long as the other side sticks to the language of Riyadh &#8230;, there will be no progress,\u201d Bashar Jaafari said after a morning of talks, adding that the Damascus government would decide if his delegation would return next week, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cFor us (this) round is over, as a government delegation. He as mediator can announce his own opinion,\u201d he said, referring to UN mediator Staffan de Mistura.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPressed whether the government delegation would return to Geneva next week, Jaafari replied: \u201cDamascus will decide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a communique issued at the end of last month\u2019s round of talks, the opposition reiterated its position that Assad can have no role in a political transition.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJaafari said the opposition statement was a kind of \u201cmine\u201d on the road to Geneva and the opposition had purposefully undermined the talks.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe language with which the statement was drafted was seen by us, the Syrian government, as well as by too many capitals as a step back rather than progress forward, because it imposed a kind of precondition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe language is provocative, irresponsible, politically speaking, and goes beyond the hopes of the Syrian people in this kind of talks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Syria\u2019s top government negotiator said on Friday his team quit UN-led peace talks in Geneva and might not return next week, blaming the opposition\u2019s rejection of any role for President Bashar al-Assad in a transition. 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