Washington calls on opposition groups to attend Syria peace talks

Washington calls on opposition groups to attend Syria peace talks
The United States is urging the invited Syrian opposition groups to participate in the upcoming talks in Geneva “without preconditions,” Alalam reported.

The talks on a ceasefire were supposed to have started on Monday, but they have been put off until Friday due to disagreements over who should sit at the negotiating table. At a press briefing on Wednesday, State Department Spokesman Mark Toner called on opposition groups to seize "a historic opportunity" to show up in Geneva and propose practical ways to implement a ceasefire and ease the humanitarian crisis.

"We believe it should seize this opportunity to test the regime’s willingness and intentions and expose before the entire world which parties are serious about a potential peaceful political transition in Syria and which are not," Toner said.

Opposition groups concluded their meetings in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday without reaching a final decision on whether they would attend the Geneva talks. The High Negotiations Committee has postponed until Thursday a decision.

The Assad government delegation will attend the talks. While the United States says representatives of the Assad government should participate in the talks, it insists Assad cannot be part of Syria’s future.

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