WASHINGTON: Former US president Jimmy Carter (pictured), yesterday proposed three principles as a basis for Syria peace talks in Geneva: Free elections, respect for their results and the deployment of peacekeepers.
Syria peace talks are set to begin in Switzerland on January 22, though the full list of participants is still unclear.
The talks have gone nowhere up to now because each belligerent “has been allowed to define the preconditions for negotiations,” Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post.
“No one can win this war,” argued Carter in an article co-written with American University professor Robert Pastor.
“It is clear that the parties think they cannot afford to lose because they fear annihilation and this explains why the war will keep going unless the international community imposes a legitimate alternative.”AFP
