Western officials say a recent meeting in Saudi Arabia of Opposition figures made significant headway in coming up with an Opposition bloc, though Russia and Iran questioned the legitimacy of the Saudi-hosted discussions. There will be noconcession,” he said.Diplomats said the main problem with the resolution involved Russian and Iranian concerns about how to refer to a bloc of Opposition groups that would join UN-led peace talks with the Syrian government set to begin in January.wholesale Rubber sealThe five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year civil war in Syria, as ministerial talks began in New York on Friday.Council diplomats said they aimed to clinch an agreement on a text.
“We are going into negotiations on this principle, we are not entering talks.“Do not expect a breakthrough from this round of talks.“I’m not sure it’s going to happen because there are some unfortunately deliberate, or not deliberate, attempts to undercut the Vienna documents and we don’t want to see that,” he told reporters on Thursday without elaborating.. But a deal remained elusive on Friday morning as talks among the 17 members of the so-called International Syria Support Group got underway at New York’s Palace Hotel.Meanwhile, Syria's Opposition wants apolitical transition without President Bashar al-Assad, said Riad Hijab, who was chosen by Syrian Opposition groups as coordinator of a negotiating body to lead future peace talks.Mr Hijab said Security Council resolutions and the Geneva roadmap provided for a transition without the President and a transitional governing council with full executive powers.Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin suggested there were significant disagreements on the draft resolution among the Security Council five veto powers — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China.
