United Nations suspends Syria peace talks

Peace negotiations in Geneva were suspended on Wednesday with an opposition umbrella group declaring that it would not return until the regime agreed to end bombardment and allow aid into besieged cities.

UN’s special envoy Staffan de Mistura insisted that the peace talks has not been declared a failure and will resume onFeb. 25. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the first steps in peace talks were undermined by increased aerial bombing. United Nations.

Just days after the peace talks regarding the Syrian civil war started, the United Nations announced its suspension and delaying it for a later date.

“We recognise that it’s hard for the regime to be at the table talking to the opposition, it’s hard for the opposition to talk to the regime when their people at home are being killed through bombing and other forms of attack”, he said.

The source stressed that the Syrian people, hand in hand with the Armed Forces, are now more determined than ever to continue their fight against terrorism.

Earlier, Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said that “the Saudis, Turks and Qataris” are the ones who should take “responsibility of this failure.”They are the real handlers and masters of the Riyadh group”, he added.”

Once Syria’s economic powerhouse, Aleppo city has been divided between government control in the west and rebel control in the east since shortly after fighting there began in mid-2012.

The UN envoy was upbeat at the beginning of the slated Geneva talks, but he saw his efforts collapse due to the different readings of UN Security Council Resolution 2245, which should provide the basis for peace discussions by the opposing sides.

“Unfortunately whenever there is a political process that starts the regime feels threatened and uses these kinds of tactics”, he said.

De Mistura’s brief is to coax both sides into six months of indirect “proximity talks” envisioned under a November roadmap proposed by outside powers, but problems beset the Geneva gathering from the outset.

The area safeguards a rebel supply route from Turkey into opposition-held parts of the city and stands between government-held parts of western Aleppo and the Shi’ite villages of Nubul and al-Zahraa, which are loyal to Damascus.

The opposition was also threatening to walk out of the talks if the airstrikes did not stop and if the government does not lift the siege it says is preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in rebel-held areas. In his statement, NHC’s chief coordinator Riad Hijab said, “The whole world sees who is making the negotiations fail”.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France condemns the “brutal offensive by the Syrian regime with Russia’s support to encircle and asphyxiate Aleppo and its hundreds of thousands of residents”. The group is scheduled to meet in Munichon February 11.

“The most important is that the countries that have influence on the opposition and on the government also have the commitment to follow with confidence the negotiations in Geneva”, Ramirez said.