Russia, Qatar reach agreement how to encourage talks between Syrian govt, opposition

The UN plans to convene peace talks in Geneva toward the end of January.

Qatar’s foreign minister said on Friday that Syria’s Assad regime is the main sponsor of terror, Felesteen newspaper has reported. “I hope that today we will be able to reciprocate both in terms of hospitality and in terms of continuing the dialogue”.

He said: “The northern and western routes which we previously revealed continue to be used”.

The two sides, however, still disagree on the fate of Syrian President Basshar al-Assad, the Russian foreign minister said.

Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah said on Friday he opposed the creation of lists of opposition before peace talks on Syria.

Wang over the weekend invited Syrian government and opposition figures to come to China as it looks to ways to help with the peace process.

“China’s position is very clear”.

However, the Syrian issue does not prevent the continuation of another conflict, the German publication said.

Turkish MP Eren Erdem of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) recently said Daesh terrorists in Syria were behind the attack, and that they received materials required to produce the deadly sarin gas through Turkey.

While relying on the region for oil supplies, China tends to leave Middle Eastern diplomacy to the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, namely the United States, Britain, France and Russian Federation.

He claimed that the destination of the oil trafficking is Turkey and that terrorists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), stripped of their usual route due to intensifying air strikes in Syria, had changed their route to one traveling through the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Zakho.

“China believes that any and all efforts to combat terrorism should be respected and supported”, Wang said.

His absence could affect a peace process aimed at negotiating a political solution to Syria’s war, which began in 2011 and in which more than 250,000 people have died.