UN mediator :Syrian government opposition representatives discussed humanitarian issues

Representatives from the Syrian government and its opposition, sitting down face-to-face to a negotiating table for the first time in three years, talked humanitarian issues Saturday afternoon, said a mediator from the United Nations (UN) Lakhdar Brahimi. "We had two sessions today in the same room with the two delegations," he told press. "In the morning we met from 10 to 11 something, and in the afternoon four to six...They faced one another, and talked through me to one another. It is a good beginning." "We haven't achieved much," he continued. "But we are continuing...This afternoon, we start to speak about humanitarian affairs, and we discussed to some length the situation in Homs, the city of Homs and the old city of Homs."