De Mistura meets opposition and Assad representatives separately in proximity talks

De Mistura meets opposition and Assad representatives separately in proximity talks
Syria’s main opposition group met with the UN’s mediator in Geneva for the first time on Sunday but attempts to get talks started to find a solution to the Syrian conflict got off to a shaky start, Euronews reported.

UN mediator Staffan de Mistura took a positive stance as he emerged from talks with the opposition’s High Negotiation Committee (HNC):

“It was useful, it is up to the HNC to tell you what is their plan but it was a useful meeting.” De Mistura went to say he was optimistic as it is his profession to be so … “and determined.”

De Mistura is meeting with both sides in separate hotels in so-called ““proximity talks. Face to face negotiations are a long way off. But despite the mutual hostility, the opposition says it will continue talking.

The Syrian government’s delegation head, Bashar al-Jaafari, said Damascus was considering options such as ceasefires, humanitarian corridors and prisoner releases, but suggested they might come about as a result of the talks, not before them.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the talks – the first in two years – as long overdue. “I urge all parties to put the people of Syria at the heart of their discussions, and above partisan interests,” he said.

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