GENEVA
The UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, called for negotiations to progress more quickly after the second round of peace talks in Geneva remained deadlocked on Tuesday.
"I'm urging everybody to speed up, except those who kill people. They shouldn’t speed up," Brahmi said during a press conference after the talks.
"Today I don’t have much to tell you except that the beginning of this week is as laborious as it was the first week. We are not making much progress," he said.
"Of course, for it to really take off we need cooperation from both sides here and lot of support from outside," Brahimi said.
Brahimi added that both sides need to start paying attention to the will of the Syrian people.
"The people of Syria are thinking: 'Please, get something going that will stop this nightmare and this injustice that is inflicted on the Syrian people'. They’ll have to listen at some stage and the earlier the better," Brahimi said.
He did however praise the agreements that have allowed for aid to enter the long-besieged city of Homs.
"Homs can be called a success that has been six months in the making. Six long months, to get a couple of hundred people - no a little bit more than that - about 800 people out, and a little bit of food in," he said. "There are lots of other places that are besieged, where nothing has happened. And Homs has been a success, I hope, but it was extremely risky."
He added that he would be meeting with representatives from the U.S. and Russia on Friday.
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