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Hopes for the success of the Geneva peace negotiations dwindle: Syrian Foreign Minister Moallem threatened with the departure of his delegation. By Saturday, it had to come to “serious” talks – but the opposition refused to date a direct contact.

The peace negotiations at Geneva lake threatened with closure. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem announced according to the state television, even on Saturday and his delegation will leave again, provided that none “working meetings” should come about. Muallem had informed the international special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi Syria.

Moallem’s response to the refusal of the opposition to put up with representatives of the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad, to negotiate at the table. On Thursday evening it had been called, the parties first wanted to sit together with Brahimi in a room and go later to indirect talks. However, according to statements from the government delegation, the opposition decided in the morning, for the time being not to negotiate directly with the delegation from Damascus.

The negotiations in Geneva are supposed to take up to ten days after Russian information. Basis of the talks is the so-called Geneva-1 agreement. This provides, among other things, a cease-fire and the formation of a transitional government.

While Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad said his delegation was prepared to recognize the Geneva-1 agreement, Buthaina Schaaban said Assad’s media consultant: “We have come to Geneva to fight against terrorism and nothing else.” The Syrian regime referred to in principle, all revolutionaries and rebels as terrorists.

In the spring of 2011, since the raging civil war far more than 130,000 people were killed. Several million people have been displaced from their homes. For several weeks, even rival rebel groups fierce fighting, in which, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights since 3 provide January nearly 1,400 militants were killed.

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