No One Is Optimistic On Next Year's Syrian Peace Conference

Analysts Pessimistic About Syria Peace Conference -- Voice of America

WASHINGTON — U.N. officials have announced that the first Syrian peace conference will be held January 22 in Geneva, although it is not clear which opposition groups will attend. Some Middle East analysts doubt the conference will produce a settlement for the nearly three-year-old conflict.

For months, the United Nations has been trying to set up a peace conference but it has been delayed repeatedly due to disputes about which groups will be represented and under what conditions.

Meanwhile, fighting rages with more than 100,000 dead and nearly nine million driven from their homes.

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My Comment: No one in Syria is interested in peace. Not from the Assad regime .... and definitely niot among the rebels. There is just too much bad blood and utterly no trust between the two sides.