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Държавният секретар на САЩ Джон Кери, който от вчера е в Париж за срещата на групата "Приятели на Сирия", днес има разговор по темата с руския си колега Сергей Лавров. Предстоят и други дипломатически срещи във връзка с подготовката на мирната конференция "Женева-2" за Сирия. Тема на разговора ще бъде и евентуалното участие на Иран в преговорите (страната засега не е поканена на конференцията). Двамата дипломати ще разговарят и с представителя на ООН за Сирия Лахдар Брахими. Джон Кери ще се срещне отново и с лидера на Сирийската национална опозиционна коалиция Ахмад Джарба, след като в неделя 11-те страни от групата "Приятели на Сирия" положиха усилия да я убедят да участва в конференцията. Аз лично вярвам, че сирийската опозиция ще дойде в Женева, заяви Кери на пресконференция, добавяйки, че това е тест на доверие пред всички. Целта на мирната конференция "Женева-2" е да се обсъди процес на политически преход, подчертаха министрите от групата във финалната си декларация. Тя отново осъжда остро престъпленията на сирийския режим и отбелязва, че Башар Асад и приближените му няма да имат никаква роля в Сирия след установяването на преходно правителство.
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Last day of Geneva-2: Syrian gov't wants to stop violence, opposition stands against However, on Thursday, for the first time since the Geneva-2 peace conference was started at the end of January, the sides not only kept away from the negotiating table but did not even held separate consutations with Lakhdar Brahimi, UN/LAS joint representative on Syria, with whose mediation discussions have been held. "Syria is inside a dark tunnel and we here make attempts at finding gleams of light at the end of this tunnel. And we are still looking for such gleams," Brahimi acknowledged at a news conference on Thursday. He said that in the lack of an agenda, no dialogue had begun on any subject that each of the delegations considers to be principled. The purpose of the government is to fight terrorism and stop violence while the oppoents of the present authorities press for the formation of a transitional governing body, in which there would be no room either for President Bashar Assad or anyone from among his entourage. Brahimi himself at the beginning of the week suggested discussing two themes in a parallel manner, to which the delegations did not give consent. Unwilling to make concessions on the principled matters, the sides virtually decline to speak to each other. This does not allow the process to make headway if only by small steps towards taking confidence-building measures on the basis of which UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had called for conducting a dialogue. This refers to local cessations of fire and an exchange of lists of detainees and kidnapped people. As the only positive aspect, Brahimi mentioned the temporary truce in the city of Homs, from the old quarters of which 1,400 civilians have been evacuated within the week. But he immediately recalled that UN and Red Crescent staff had been fired upon and that there remain a dozen of other cities in that country, access to which has been barred for humanitarian personnel. Now that there is an utter lack of headway "inside", and the negotiating process has reached an impasse, the role of outside players, primarily Russia and the United States, which had suggested the Geneva-2 peace conference, is coming to the fore. In an attempt to add "constructivism" to the sides, as a Russian diplomat put it, a trilateral meeting in the RF-USA-UN format was held in Geneva on Thursday. For two hours Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, and Brahimi held closed-door discussions. As a result of the consultations, the Algerian diplomat said Russia and the USA promised to help in unblocking the inter-Syrian talks. "The meeting in the trilateral format was very important," he said. "Russia and the USA promisid here and in the capitals to help forward the process, in which there is little progress." Brahimi did not specify which particual help Moscow and Washington would give and what arguments they would find for the two delegations. However, the Russian and American diplomats did not shelve the matter and went ahead with work immediately following the close of the trilateral meeting. Gatilov set out for a meeting with the Syrian Foreign Miniser while Sherman went out for talks with the opposition's delegation. What will be the direction of the process and, actually whether there will be a third round of of meetings will depend on the outcome of these contacts. Both delegations assure that they intend to return to the shore of Lake Geneva but do not mention any date for that and continue to accuse each other of an utter lack of a constructive approach, without which to see light at the end of the tunnel is a no easy task. Russia hopes for successful negotiation of Syrian humanitarian resolution in UN - diplomat Russia hopes for the successful negotiation of the resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council on the basis of two projects submitted by Moscow and its partners, stated Vitaly Churkin, Russia's permanent representative to the UN. " Two projects were presented ... I think this time they will be successful", Churkin told reporters after consultations on Syria in the UN Security Council. Geneva-2: second round of negotiations may end on Friday - Syrian opposition The Secretary General of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Jamus Badr told reporters today that final meeting of second round of negotiations of Geneva-2 will be held on Friday at 11:30 am Geneva time (15:30 Moscow Time). "Tomorrow our delegation was invited to the meeting by a joint UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi. He announced that this meeting will be the last one," said Jamus. Geneva-2: Syrian issues to take long time to resolve - Brahimi The issues of the fight against terrorism and the establishment of a transitional governing body in Syria will take a long time to resolve, the joint United Nations and Arab League envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said Thursday. Brahimi told a news briefing that the agenda of the intra-Syrian talks currently ongoing in Geneva has not been formed yet. Whether these issues will be discussed in parallel or not, but these problems will not be resolved this or next week, he said. The parties to the Syrian conflict resumed talks on February 10, starting the second round of the Geneva-2 international peace conference on Syria, whose first round ended January 31 with no substantive results. Geneva-2, organized by Russia and the United States, seeks to negotiate a solution to the Syrian crisis which has claimed over 100,000 lives and displaced millions since its start in 2011. The position of the Syrian government delegation is that the fight against terrorism should be discussed at the current talks first and a transitional governing body later. But the Syrian opposition apparently believes the transitional government issue, mentioned in the Geneva Communique, should top the discussion agenda. The Geneva Communique was adopted on June 30, 2012 at a conference of an "action group" on Syria in Geneva. That conference is now commonly referred to as "Geneva-1." Geneva-2 is its logical continuation. Russian, Syrian diplomats to hold new meeting in Geneva Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will hold a new meeting in Geneva as part of the talks between the Syrian government and opposition. "I will have a meeting with Walid Muallem. We maintain regular contact," Gatilov said on Thursday, February 13. He attended trilateral consultations with US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for the Syrian Crisis, Lakhdar Brahimi, in Geneva on Wednesday. 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