Syria’s regime and the opposition, on the second day of peace talks in Geneva, discussed sending aid to besieged residents in the embattled city of Homs; where hundreds of families in the Old City are living under siege with near-daily shelling and the barest of supplies
The second key issue to be discussed on Sunday, would be the release of some of the thousands of people being held in Syrian jails or kidnapped.
Opposition spokesman Louay Safi said a deal on Homs was like a “trial balloon” to test the regime.
“If the regime does not open humanitarian corridors for people who are starving to death, this means that the regime wants a military solution and not a political solution,” he said.
Safi said the opposition wanted to start discussing the core issues of a political transition on Monday.
“What is happening today and tomorrow is a prelude,” he said. “It’s on Monday that the formation of a transitional government will be dealt with.”
Erupting after the regime cracked down on protests inspired by the Arab Spring, Syria’s civil war has claimed more than 130,000 lives and forced millions from their homes.
Pitting Assad’s regime, dominated by the Alawite offshoot of Shiite Islam, against largely Sunni Muslim rebels, the war has unsettled large parts of the Middle East.
The fighting continued in Syria on Saturday, with the regime’s air force striking rebel-held areas near Damascus and Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have recorded more than 130,000 killed by the Assad brutal regime and million others have been forced to flee their homes in Syria.