Syria Opposition Not After Peace In Talks: Expert on January 26, 2014 The prospect for peace is not promising in the course of the ongoing Syria talks as the so-called opposition does not seek a political solution to the crisis, an international lawyer tells Press TV. “We can’t be optimistic particularly at this stage that there is going to be a serious broad ceasefire because frankly, the opposition doesn’t want that,” Franklin Lamb said in a Saturday interview. “I get the impression that they don’t want a political solution because they think they can still have a military solution; they think the Americans are going to end up giving them more aid and so I think they’re there in a sense under false pretenses,” he pointed out. Lamb noted that the so-called opposition figures at the ongoing talks cannot represent the Syrian nation as they are mainly unknown among the Syrian public and many of them have not been in the country for nearly “a quarter of a century.” The remarks come as the Geneva II conference on Syria is under way in the Swiss city of Geneva to find a political solution to the crisis in the Arab country. The talks kicked off on January 22. The foreign-backed opposition and its Western supporters, including the US, insist that President Bashar al-Assad must step down and a transitional government be formed in Syria. However, Damascus has rejected the demand, arguing that the foreign-backed coalition does not represent the Syrian opposition. On Saturday, UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said the two face-to-face meetings between delegates representing the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition in Geneva have not achieved much. The United Nations says more than four million Syrians will be forced out of their homes in 2014 by the escalating conflict in the country that has displaced millions so far. en.shiapost/2014/01/26/syria-opposition-not-after-peace-in-talks-expert/
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:15:52 +0000