After Second Round of Syria Talks, No Agreement Even on How to Negotiate -- New York Times
GENEVA — The United Nations mediator for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, wrapped up the second round of peace talks here on Saturday without breaking a longstanding deadlock or setting a date for a third round, and urged the parties to think seriously about their commitment to the negotiations.
Mr. Brahimi said the talks had broken down primarily because the Syrian government balked at his suggestion that the negotiators discuss both sides’ top demands in the first two days of negotiations, rather than spending days on the government’s priorities.
“I am very, very sorry, and I apologize to the Syrian people,” Mr. Brahimi, an Algerian diplomat who has spent decades negotiating thorny conflicts, said after a last-ditch, 45-minute meeting with the two sides ended in disagreement. “I apologize to them that on these two rounds we haven’t helped them very much.”
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My Comment: 140,000 dead and counting. Hundreds of thousands wounded. Millions displaced and homeless. It is hard to see how common ground can be found for a peaceful resolution when there is so much anger and hate.
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