Syria’s regime and Opposition are expected to discuss prisoner releases at a second day of face-to-face peace talks in Geneva on Sunday.
The talks are set to resume at 11:00 am (1000 GMT) with UN mediator lakhdar Brahimi acting as a go-between, after the two warring sides sat together in the same room for the first time on Saturday.
In what Brahimi said was a “good beginning”, their first discussions centred on sending aid to besieged residents in the embattled city of Homs.
Brahimi said he hoped a deal could be reached on sending aid convoys on Sunday or Monday to Homs, where hundreds of families in the Old City are living under siege with near-daily shelling and the barest of supplies.
“If we achieve success on Homs we hope that this will be the beginning,” Brahimi said. Despite the failure to agree on any concrete proposals, Saturday still marked progress after President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime on Friday accused the Opposition of obstructing the negotiations and threatened to walk away.