Syrian peace conference postponed, before it was even announced
Geneva (AsiaNews
/ Agencies) - The Geneva II Conference, which aims to find a solution to the
Syrian conflict and the date of which had not yet been officially announced,
has been postponed, until maybe next month. The
announcement was made yesterday in Geneva by Lakhdar Brahimi , the UN and the
Arab League envoy, after a day of meetings with various diplomatic
representatives.
"We
hoped - he said - to be able to announce the date" of the conference, today
but , he added, " unfortunately it is not to be". Brahimi
alleged that "nothing dramatic" had happened in the meetings of the
past few days and that the lack of agreement on the date was predictable . "
But - he concluded - we
are still striving to see if we can have the conference before the end of the
year".
In
reality the situation is complex : President Assad seems unwilling to talk
about a transitional government , the opposition can not agree on a leader and
the United States has not responded to the Russian proposal to include Iran in
the negotiations.
Any
invitation to Iran, according to Jarba Ahmad , president of the Syrian National
Coalition, would be a " provocation."
Jarba,
who speaks for the main opposition group has also said that the coalition will
take part at the conference in Geneva only as a united front .
21/01/2014