United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reemphasized on Monday here the importance of ending the almost 3-year-old Syria crisis through peaceful solution and of bringing parties back to negotiating table.

Ban Ki-moon told a press conference that he had held a long discussion with Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi on Sunday, and given the little progress achieved at the first two rounds of Geneva II conference over Syria conflict, it was vital to reflect over how to bring about more achievements.

"For the moment it is our sense that there is an urgent need for the parties, and those with influence over them, to reflect on how the talks can achieve the progress the Syrian people and the region so urgently need," said Ban Ki-moon.

The UN head attributed the lack of progress to the scarce constructive engagement of Syrian two sides into the dialogue.

"It is important that the two parties, particularly I urge the Syrian authorities to come with a constructive position. And I am urging again those countries, particularly the Russian Federation and the United States and other members, the permanent members of the Security Council and regional powers who have influence on the government as well as opposition forces to exert their influences, so that all parties will come to Geneva as soon as possible with a sincere and constructive position," said Ban.

He stressed the urgency to continue this Geneva conference and the need to hold the third round of the Geneva conference as soon as possible, but he failed to give the exact date of the scheduled new round.

The first two rounds of the Geneva II were held respectively in January and February. The two sides of Syira agreed to hold negotiations under the framework of the Geneva Communique, adopted in 2012, but they were far apart in their approach to talks.

The government side insisted to take stopping violence and terrorism as top priority, while the opposition focused on the establishment of a transitional governing body with full executives and without the presence of President Bashar al-Assad.

To date no progress has been witnessed, and the two sides hurled reproaches at each other over the gridlock. Endi

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