"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.