SANA.png Riyadh group to blame for suspension 'Riyadh group' operators to blame for dialogue failure; Saudi statements are talk of amateur politicians - Syria's Al-Jaafari SANA, Damascus, 10 February 2016 Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic definitely was not the party responsible for the failure of the Syrian-Syrian dialogue in Geneva and no rational person could say otherwise. In a interview with the Lebanese al-Manar TV channel aired late on Tuesday, al-Jaafari clarified that the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura did not say Geneva talks failed, but considered his decision as a suspension of the dialogue, "which did not start in the first place". "We didn't actually engage in dialogue neither in substance nor in terms of form. We were all the time busy handling the dangerous formality and procedural gaps, without which being tackled we couldn't go on to the substantial part of dialogue," he explained. Bashar Al-Jaafari.jpg Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Bashar al-Jaafari Such gaps included "which the opposition groups are, which the terrorist groups are, where the other delegations are and why the delegations are not being treated on an equal footing," al-Jaafari added. Asked about whose responsibility it was for the impasse in Geneva, al-Jaafari explained clearly that the official spokesman for the delegation of the so-called "Riyadh group" announced, upon their arrival in Geneva and even before reaching the hotel, that they were going to walk away from the talks by Thursday if what he called "the regime" in Syria didn't meet their preconditions. The instructions later came by their Saudi and Turkish operators for the "Riyadh group" delegation to walk away a day before actually did so, he said. "They didn't go for the sake of dialogue, but rather to foil it by setting preconditions. They knew in advance that things would go into a stalemate," he added. de Mistura The Syrian Ambassador told al-Manar TV that the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic told de Mistura that his decision to suspend the talks was to save face, because if the envoy didn't announce the suspension, the "Riyadh group" would announce its withdrawal anyway. "Such a move could lead to final and complete failure of the dialogue, which what [de Mistura] didn't want as he said, and therefore, he knows exactly that it was the 'Riyadh group' and their Saudi, Turkish and Qatari operators who caused the dialogue to fail before it even started," added al-Jaafari. Commenting on the Saudi statements on sending Saudi troops into Syria, al-Jaafari said such talk can only come from "amateur politicians who don't realize what they are saying." Reem/H. Said From: http://sana.sy/en/?p=69034 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
