WORLD_ Syria opposition in key talks on peace

Syria opposition in key talks on peace
Serene Assir
From: AAP
May 24, 2013 6:02AM


SYRIA'S main opposition group is meeting for key talks in Istanbul to debate whether to join a new US-Russian peace initiative to end the two-year civil war.


Holding its seventh general assembly meeting since its creation last November, the National Coalition is expected to choose a new president, discuss incorporating new members and decide the fate of an interim rebel government.

The three-day meeting comes as rebels face a massive onslaught by President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah in the insurgent bastion of Qusayr, central Syria.

Since the Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011, more than 90,000 people have been killed.

The opponents' meeting begins a day after backers of the anti-Assad uprising during a meeting in Amman pledged more assistance to the opposition should the regime fail to commit to a peaceful political transition.

The Friends of Syria group also tried to agree the contours of a peace conference to end the war.

The opposition has long held that it can only enter into talks with members of the regime if negotiations are guaranteed to lead to the fall of Assad's regime.

While Assad has repeatedly said the Syrian war must end with a political solution, state news agency SANA hinted on Thursday the regime may defy the US-Russian proposal.

"Participants (in the Amman meeting) have blocked the road towards the holding of an international conference" for peace, said SANA, in reference to the meeting dubbed Geneva 2 proposed by the United States and Russia.

Also on Thursday, Assad reportedly told a Tunisian delegation he was determined to crush the rebellion "and those who support it regionally and globally", SANA said.

The opposition's ambassador in France Monzer Makhous said SANA's dismissal of the Friends of Syria meet was "a sign" that the regime may reject the Geneva 2 proposal.

"It is not an official refusal, but it is a sign," Makhous told AFP.

"I feel it is unlikely that this conference (Geneva 2) would be able to reach a real solution to the Syrian crisis - not because the opposition would not want that, but because the regime does not want that."

Makhous said Geneva 2 would see the entry of a transitional government bringing together regime and opposition representatives, and that it would take over full powers in Syria for a time.

"Bashar (al-Assad) would be out of the equation, and the transitional government would be in charge of the security and military files.

"Anyone capable of analysis can see that the Syrian regime would not accept this equation, though it is the least the opposition is willing to accept," Makhous said.

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