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Syrian government says ready for further peace talks
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syria’s government said on Sunday it was ready for further peace talks with the opposition and that it was intent on a political solution to the five-year conflict."Syria ... is ready to continue the Syrian-Syrian dialogue without any preconditions ... and without foreign interference, with the support of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ," state news agency SANA quoted an official in the foreign ministry as saying. The UN hopes to convene a new round of intra-Syrian peace talks in Geneva in August, its Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said this week. Previous rounds of talks this year broke down as fighting escalated, particularly around Aleppo, where government forces recently cut off the only road into rebel-held areas of the divided northern city. The United States and Russia, which back opposing sides in the conflict, are meanwhile to discuss an American proposal for closer military cooperation and intelligence sharing on Syria to combat bully boy groups. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said this month that Washington and Damascus ally Moscow had reached a common understanding on the steps needed to get Syria’s grinding of the peace processor back on track. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-25 |
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