Coalition delegation insist on ignoring the suffering of the Syrian people

Geneva (ST)-The final session of the second round of talks of Geneva 2 conference  was held on Saturday  between Syria’s official delegation and the coalition delegation in the presence of the UN envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi.

The final session ended without reaching a consensus on an agenda despite that Syria’s official delegation agreed on it.

“We insisted on giving each item  its time in the dialogue within the draft agenda, to reach an agreement on each of them, because such concurrence would be reflected positively on other items”, a media source in  Geneva quoted the Syrian official delegation as saying.  

“They want to make combating terrorism insignificant while the transitional government a priority because the issue of  terrorism has not finished yet,” the delegation said, renewing “those who allege desire of ceasing violence should accept counterterrorism.”

“The item of combating terrorism or any other item couldn’t be discussed in two hours and move to other items without reaching an agreement, and this applies to all items,” the official delegation asserted.

“Any political solution serving the issue of encountering terrorism and Syria’s sovereignty is the essence of our presence in Geneva while the other side doesn’t have an independent decision”, the Syrian official delegation clarified.

 “USA brandishing of a military escalation has encouraged the coalition delegation to be intransigent and foil this round, the delegation pointed out, expressing readiness to return to Geneva after agreeing with us on a date for the next round because we believe in the importance of the political solution.

“We came here to reach a political solution according to Geneva1, but no solution could begin while the Syrian people are living under terrorism.”

The second round of talks started on 10th of February, including holding a number of sessions, some of which were separated between each delegation and Brahimi, while others were joint in the same room with the presence of Brahimi as well.

The coalition delegation’s insistence on ignoring the suffering of the Syrian people, renunciation to acknowledge terrorism and the importance of combating it hindered the possibility of reaching a common ground in spite of the Syrian official delegation’s openness to discuss all items of Geneva Communiqué’s and its confirmation of resuming efforts to make the talks succeed in a way serving the interests of the Syrian people.

I.Abdulkareem