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The Syrian government and opposition have traded insults after a week-long peace conference in Geneva ended with no firm agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said the opposition were immature, while the opposition’s Louay Safi said the regime had no desire to stop the bloodshed.<\/span>
However, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he had seen some “common ground”, and scheduled more talks for 10 February.<\/span>
The opposition has agreed to take part, but Mr Muallem refused to commit.<\/span>
“We represent the concerns and interests of our people. If we find that [another meeting] is their demand, then we will come back,” he told reporters.<\/span>
He railed at the opposition, saying they had tried to “implode the conference” by insisting that the government hands power over.<\/span>
Mr Safi said the opposition would not sit in talks “endlessly”, and urged the government to “talk seriously about transferring power”.<\/span>
Opposition leader Ahmed Jarba said he and his colleagues had “stood up to the regime, a regime that only knows blood and death”.<\/span>
The two sides discussed humanitarian issues and possible ways to end the violence.<\/span>
They made some agreements on local ceasefires to allow access for humanitarian workers.<\/span>
UN aid chief Valerie Amos said the deals had allowed some aid to get through to a few thousand families.<\/span>
But she said that, so far, an agreed ceasefire in the besieged city of Homs had not had any effect, and no aid has got through.<\/span>
Parts of Homs have been under government siege for more than 18 months. Some residents have told the BBC that they are eating grass to survive.<\/span>
More than 100,000 people have died in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebels not represented<\/strong><\/span>
Mr Brahimi said: “Progress is very slow indeed, but the sides have engaged in an acceptable manner. This is a very modest beginning, but it is a beginning on which we can build.”<\/span>
Though the gap between the two sides was “wide”, they had become used to sitting in the same room, he said.<\/span>
“There have been moments when one side has even acknowledged the concerns and difficulties of the other side,” he said.<\/span>
The first round of talks between the government and the opposition National Coalition began last week.<\/span>
Both sides agreed to use a 2012 document known as the Geneva Communique as a basis for discussions, and agreed to meet in the same room.<\/span>
But neither side could agree on the focus, with the opposition insisting that political transition was the focus, and the government wanting to talk about terrorism.<\/span>
Diplomats described the atmosphere between the two sides as extremely tense all the way through the conference.<\/span>
And the talks were further hampered by the lack of representation of some of the rebel fighting groups, including the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.<\/span>
Diplomats have said that a top priority in Geneva is to keep the talks process going, in the hope that hard-line positions can be modified over time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: BBC News<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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