Exclusive From Vienna: Interview With Syrian Opposition Figure

Kazakhstan - Spokesman for the Syrian opposition Yahya al-Aridi speaks to the media outside the venue for talks on the Syrian conflict, Astana, Kazakhstan, 24 January 2017

Radio Farda correspondent Hannah Kaviani, who is in Vienna covering the Syrian peace talks, interviewed the spokesman of Syrian Negotiations Commission, SNC, an opposition coalition, Yahya al-Aridi .

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Why are the talks in Vienna so important?

SYRIA -- A man gestures while standing amidst debris in the Syrian Kurdish town of Jandairis in the northern Afrin district, January 24, 2018

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What if the Syrian government will take these talks seriously?

SYRIA -- Syrians eat falafel at the King's Restaurant, the oldest and most famous falafel restaurant in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, on January 9, 2018

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What is the proposed Syrian constitutional reform?

SYRIA -- A girl writes in a notebook as she sits outside a tent at the Furat (Euphrates) camp for the displaced from Deir Ezzor, north of the town of Kafr Dariyan in the countryside of the northern province of Idlib, November 28, 2017

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What is the role of Russia in the Syrian civil war?

RUSSIA -- Russian President Vladimir Putin (front, L) toasts during a reception after a ceremony to present state awards to Russian military servicemen who fought in Syria, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 28 December 2017

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Are the talks going in a positive direction?

SYRIA -- A Syrian boy holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a make-shift hospital following a reported gas attack on the rebel-held besieged town of Douma in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, January 22, 2018

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The French Foreign Minister said the the Vienna talks are the "last hope". What is your reaction to these words?

FRANCE -- French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian delivers a speech during a foreign ministers’ meeting on the International Partnership against Impunity for the Use of Chemical Weapons, in Paris, January 23, 2018

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What do you see as the future of Iran-Syria relations?

Iran -- The mother (2nd R) of Amin Karimi, a member of Iranian Revolutionary Guards who was killed in Syria, mourns during his funeral in Tehran October 28, 2015.

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How representative is your committee?

Syria -- A Kurdish man waves a large flag of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), during a demonstration against the exclusion of Syrian-Kurds from the Geneva talks in the northeastern Syrian city o