![It is unsurprising that Damascus would want to scupper the latest round of talks because the focus is supposed to be a political transition that it has repeatedly rejected, writes Nashashibi [AP]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vA9ewjpBfvOKADd8HUFW9UJke0kDrPpUcx9FQEYhtjYNopix8GE2OhxzPthTg580JsFF7syW0DOlMSQlYM633Ikgxhxz0m6DF4pPrzZaTXqeDRbMZZQK7WCBjQj18XospI0FZdulMwICOkDitypa8J6X8WnppJoF-6EU3RY2sOcW8lcLYGNClbiGYG4mWQ4pZcPeypRfgBs5fv=s0-d)
On April 10, United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura arrived in Damascus for meetings with regime officials in the run-up to the resumption of peace talks in Geneva on April 13. That very day, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said regime troops were preparing a major offensive to retake Syria's largest city Aleppo.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/04/syrian-civil-war-negotiating-bad-faith-160413081829739.html
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