敘利亞和談無望出現突破
The U.N.'s chief mediator for the intra-Syrian talks says he does not see any imminent breakthrough on the horizon.
On the eve of a new round of Syrian peace talks, Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. special envoy for Syria, downplayed expectations, but said that there was a “political momentum” to move ahead on efforts to end the long-standing civil war.
Syria's warring parties last met in Geneva nearly nine months ago. That round of talks broke down because of repeated violations of a cease-fire agreement.
De Mistura acknowledged that the successful resumption of the failed negotiations hinged largely on the warring parties abiding by the current cease-fire.
He said Russia, which had worked out the agreement with Turkey in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, was using its influence to see that the fragile cease-fire held.
The U.N. envoy warned that there were, what he called “spoilers,” who would try to provoke one side or the other to walk out of the talks or to refuse to talk.
Syria's nearly six-year-long civil war has killed around 400,000 people, displaced more than 6 million inside Syria, half of them children and prompted nearly 5 million to flee as refugees into neighboring countries. An estimated 13.5 million people need humanitarian assistance.聯合國負責敘利亞事務的首席談判人員說，他在近期內看不到談判會有任何突破。
在新一輪敘利亞和談前夕，聯合國敘利亞問題特使德米斯圖拉告訴人們不要期待太高，但表示目前有一股“政治勢頭”，向前推動爲結束長期內戰所作的努力。
敘利亞交戰各方上一次會面是近九個月前在日內瓦舉行的會議上。那一輪談判由於停火協定一再被違反而中斷。
德米斯圖拉承認，成功重啓之前失敗的談判主要取決於交戰各方是否遵守目前的停火。
他說，俄羅斯與土耳其在哈薩克斯坦首都阿斯塔納達成協議，並正在利用其影響力維持脆弱的停火。
這位聯合國特使警告說，仍會有他所說的“壞事者”，試圖對參加會談的一方進行挑釁，使他們離開會談，或拒絕談話。
敘利亞近六年的內戰已經導致約40萬人喪生，600多萬人在敘利亞境內流離失所，其中一半是兒童。這促使近500萬人作爲難民逃到鄰國。目前估計敘利亞有1350萬人需要人道主義援助。
