敘利亞和談即將在日內瓦復會

Delegates from Syria's government and the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad are in Geneva for a second round of peace talks.

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is mediating the negotiations resuming Monday. The talks follow an initial round last month that ended with little progress, but one that Brahimi called "a modest beginning" to build on.

Wide gaps remain on issues ranging from a potential transitional government to access for humanitarian aid in besieged areas.

The status of civilians in war-battered Homs was part of the initial round of talks, and last week Syria reached a three-day cease-fire agreement with the United Nations to allow aid into the city.

The governor of Homs, Talal Barazi, said 600 people were evacuated Sunday from rebel-held areas. Workers from the United Nations and Syrian Red Crescent rescued the large group.

Even so, eyewitness accounts said a number of women and children trying to leave the city were killed and wounded after being hit by mortar shells.敘利亞政府和反對阿薩德總統陣營的代表在日內瓦即將舉行第二輪和談。

星期一，聯合國 - 阿拉伯國家聯盟特使卜拉希米正在斡旋恢復談判。這輪會談延續上個月的首輪會談。首輪會談幾乎沒有取得進展，但卜拉希米稱之爲建設基礎的“適度開端”。

雙方在多方面問題上都存在很大分歧，從建立可能的過渡政府問題到允許向被圍困地區運送人道主義援助。

飽受戰爭摧殘的霍姆斯平民的處境是首輪談判的部分議題。上週，敘利亞與聯合國達成了三天停火協議，以允許援助進入這座城市。

霍姆斯市長巴拉茲說， 星期日從反政府力量控制地區疏散了600人。聯合國和敘利亞紅新月會工作人員營救了這一大批人。

儘管如此，目擊者說，一些試圖離開這個城市的婦女和兒童被迫擊炮彈炸死或炸傷。