New York (Antara Bali) - Indonesia has proposed conducting informal negotiations between the conflicting parties in Syria.
On Friday, Indonesia's foreign minister Marty Natalegawa said here that the idea emerged in response to the deadlock over the Geneva II peace conference plan for Syria.
He added that informal negotiations would make it possible for the conflicting parties, the government and opposition groups in Syria to build confidence between each other and end the deadlock.
"We wish to put forward efforts which are informal in nature. This would be a process to create mutual confidence, which is now non-existent," he said after holding a bilateral meeting with Syria's foreign minister, Walid Muallem, at the United Nations Headquarters.
"They have killed and destroyed each other. So it would be difficult to bring them to a formal meeting, such as Geneva II. They do not want to be in one room," he said.
The two ministers met for about 30 minutes, discussing efforts to find a new opportunity to deal with the current deadlock. (*/M038)
