Syria: No transitional government after peace talks

Syrian information minister said contrary to western intelligence claims, all groups fighting against Syrian army now are ‘terrorist groups’ and no one should expect a transitional government following talks between sides of the Syrian conflict. Speaking at a news conference in Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday, Omran al-Zoubi said, "foreign intelligence services try to say that there are moderate and extremist terrorism in Syria; there are numerous documents and evidence proving that they are all terrorist groups and the Syrian government and army are fighting against terrorism", Al-Alam reported. "Aside from their different names, they have no other difference; all you here such as Daesh (The Al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) and others are terrorist groups," he added. Syria peace talks Speaking on a long-awaited peace conference dubbed as ‘Geneva 2’ aiming to find a solution to end the deadly crisis in Syria, al-Zoubi said, "any agreement in Geneva 2 will be put on a referendum among Syrian people, because any deal without consensus of all Syrian people is worthless". He further said there will be no transitional government in Syria following the talks, a controversial pre-condition set by the foreign-backed Syrian opposition for attending the conference. The Syrian minister said, "I recommend all in the opposition and others to read the Geneva statement carefully; It is going to be result of a Syrian-Syrian talk." About other countries’ presence in the internationally-brokered talks, al-Zoubi said, "We definitely want Iran present in the conference at the same level the other countries are."