(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition will join peace talks that have opened in Geneva Friday after assurances from U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the United Nations that demands to release the detainees and to stop the bombing will be addressed in the preliminary negotiations, source told Zaman al-Wasl.
United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Friday he hoped to hold talks with the High Negotiations Committee on Sunday.
“I have good reasons to believe that they are actually considering this very seriously, and therefore to be in a position on, probably, Sunday, to actually start the discussion with them, in order to be able to proceed with the intra-Syrian talks,” De Mistura said, Reuters reported.
The talks started Friday afternoon as de Mistura met the regime delegation, headed by the permanent representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari.More than 260,000 people have been
killed since Syria's conflict erupted in 2011.
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