Syrian Opposition HNC Not Upset at Getting No Invitation to Intra-Syrian Talks

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The Syrian opposition's High Negotiations Committee (HNC) is not disappointed with the absence of the invitation to the intra-Syrian meeting, which is expected to be held in mid-January in Kazakhstan's capital city of Astana, the HNC spokesman told Sputnik Friday.

High Negotiations Committee (HNC) spokesman Riyad Naasan Agha (Syria's main opposition body ) (File) - Sputnik International
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CAIRO (Sputnik) – On December 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed in a phone call the possibility of a meeting between the Syrian conflicting parties in Astana. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev supported this initiative and expressed readiness to provide a platform for such talks.

"We do not have any comments on this occasion, no disappointment and no resentment. This is Russia’s business [to determine] whom to invite," Riyad Naasan Agha said.

The Riyadh-formed HNC is one of the three Syria's opposition groups, which participated in the latest round of intra-Syrian talks in Geneva on April 13-27. The HNC walked out of the negotiations, citing the continuous fighting in Syria and the lack of progress on humanitarian issues.

On December 8, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the Riyadh-formed opposition High Negotiation Committee (HNC) was blamed both by the EU and US representatives, though unofficially, for freezing the negotiations process, as they refuse to enter talks without receiving guarantees of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s resignation.

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