Like a raft in a rough sea, the Geneva II conference on Syria is still sought out as a means of salvation by many states. Even though there is no agreement over what the conference should address, the idea continues to make headway while the situation in Syria deteriorates.
The latest blow to a potentially successful conference was the decision last week of 11 of the most powerful rebel groups in Syria to issue a statement saying the opposition could only be represented by those who have “lived their troubles and shared in what they sacrificed.” Effectively, this was a repudiation of the opposition in exile, which would have spoken in the rebels’ name in Geneva.
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