Syria’s government and opposition will start a new round of UN-brokered talks in Geneva on Tuesday, but there is little optimism for progress towards ending the seven-year conflict.
After months of stalemate, the talks are expected to focus primarily on a new constitution and elections, two of the four so-called “baskets” of reforms laid out by the United Nations for a political settlement to the Syria crisis.
The UN’s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said he hoped the warring factions would start a fresh round of negotiations “without preconditions” and within the framework of the UN Security Council’s resolutions.
According to Al Jazeera, some 50 delegates representing different factions within the Syrian opposition arrived in the Swiss city of Geneva over the weekend in preparation for the talks.
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