Syrians on Sunday inspected a damaged neighborhood in Aleppo, which activists said was the target of a government airstrike. Credit Hosam Katan/Reuters
Syrian Opposition Leader: The Peace Talks Are Dead -- Josh Rogin, Daily Beast
The top negotiator for the Syrian Opposition Coalition tells The Daily Beast there will be no more peace talks in Geneva unless the regime drastically changes its tune.
With peace talks all but pronounced dead and the Free Syrian Army on its heels, there can be no more illusions about reaching a negotiated political solution with Bashar al-Assad’s regime under the current conditions, according to the chief negotiator for the Syrian Opposition Coalition.
Hadi Al Bahra represented the SOC, which the United States has deemed “the legitimate representative of the Syrian people,” at two rounds of confrontational meetings between civilian opposition leaders and regime representatives in Geneva, organized by Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Those talks were so unproductive that there is no way the SOC, or UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi for that matter, will return to Geneva again until or unless the regime drastically changes its approach, which isn’t likely.
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