CRI听力:No Sign of Progress in Talks between Syrian Government and the Opposition

Talks between representatives of the Syrian government and some moderate opposition groups have ended in Moscow with no sign of progress towards ending that country's four-year-old conflict.

The conflict has killed more than two-hundred twenty thousand people.

Russian mediators, opposition officials and the head of the Syrian government delegation in Moscow are praising an accord which they say both sides have endorsed.

They say it calls for a political deal based on an agreement reached in Geneva in 2012, an end to outside meddling, and a halt to support of terrorism in Syria.

Qadri Jamil, former Syrian government official, now with the opposition: "We had no illusions that this conference could bring a solution to the issue, but the important thing is that we reached an understanding on a number of issues between the opposition and the other side."

Samir Aita, of the Syria Democratic Forum group says that policy carried out by the authorities harms this process of negotiations.

But Bashar al-Jaafari, head of the Syrian government delegation in Moscow, disagreed.

"We've managed to adopt a very important document and applause which followed were the best proof of it. Therefore attempts to deny it - I think it was done on the orders of those forces who wanted to disrupt this conference."

Participants say they have discussed returning to talks in Geneva, which collapsed last year, but no decisions had been made.

The first round of talks in Moscow in January also ended inconclusively and the Russian mediator saying a pause in the process is now likely.