"The Moscow meeting was a very important event, because the opposition from Syria participated in the meeting. And we believe that they agreed on many points that would be included in the solution of the problems that they face," Liu Jieyi, Permanent Representative and Ambassador of China to the United Nations, told reporters.
The Chinese diplomat also said that the settlement of the Syrian crisis should, first of all, come from the Syrian people. The international community should support Moscow's efforts, he emphasized.
On January 26-29, Moscow hosted inter-Syrian talks, attended by representatives of the Syrian government and a number of opposition groups. The negotiations were the first ones to focus on Syrian reconciliation since January 2014, when a UN-backed conference on the Syrian conflict was held in Geneva, Switzerland, failing to yield significant results.
Syria has been embroiled in civil war since 2011. The state's army is involved in fighting several opposition and rebel groups. According to UN estimates, the internal conflict has claimed lives of about 200,000 people.
