MOSCOW. Feb 4 (Interfax) - Representatives of the National Coalition for Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces will attend the second round of the Geneva peace talks to begin on February 10, but the government's continuing violence is putting the talks in jeopardy, said Burhan Ghalioun, a National Coalition leader.
"We will go to Geneva for the next round. But it will be a difficult decision. If the international community does not stop Assad, it will be difficult to continue the talks," he told Interfax.
"It will be hard to hold talks being aware that civilians are being killed," he said.
Ghalioun also said that the National Coalition leaders will try to convince Moscow in talks at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday that pressure should be put on the Syrian regime in order to implement the UN Security Council's Resolution 2118 on Syria, which seals the principles of the Geneva communique.
"Russia has levers to make Assad stop killing civilians," he said.
"If Russia does not make Assad stop that, everyone will see that Moscow agrees with the policy being pursued by the regime, a policy of killing its own people," Ghalioun said.