Syria negotiators discuss relief to Homs, prisoner releases
- 10 years ago
It's the second day of face-to-face talks between the Syrian government and the opposition in Geneva.
On the agenda: aid relief to the besieged city of Homs and the release of nearly 50,000 detainees.
Opposition delegation member Monzer Akbik.
(SOUNDBITE) MEMBER OF SYRIAN OPPOSITION DELEGATION MONZER AKBIK SAYING:
"We give priority to women and children and the most vulnerable detainees, for example the people who has illness or they need medical care, we give priority for that. Give in return? As I mentioned earlier that the Free Syrian Army has only fighters. They don't have civilians or opinion prisoners."
But Bouthaina Shaaban, an advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, doubts the opposition delegation here can adequately represent the factious Syrian rebels.
(SOUNDBITE) ADVISOR TO SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD, BOUTHAINA SHAABAN, SAYING:
"If these people who are here represent a small fraction of the opposition, if the national, po
On the agenda: aid relief to the besieged city of Homs and the release of nearly 50,000 detainees.
Opposition delegation member Monzer Akbik.
(SOUNDBITE) MEMBER OF SYRIAN OPPOSITION DELEGATION MONZER AKBIK SAYING:
"We give priority to women and children and the most vulnerable detainees, for example the people who has illness or they need medical care, we give priority for that. Give in return? As I mentioned earlier that the Free Syrian Army has only fighters. They don't have civilians or opinion prisoners."
But Bouthaina Shaaban, an advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, doubts the opposition delegation here can adequately represent the factious Syrian rebels.
(SOUNDBITE) ADVISOR TO SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD, BOUTHAINA SHAABAN, SAYING:
"If these people who are here represent a small fraction of the opposition, if the national, po