UN envoy Staffan de Mistura looks on before the start of talks on Syria in Vienna on Thursday
It has sparked concerns that the Kremlin is looking to sideline the United Nations.
His comments came as negotiators settled in for a long, final day at separate UN-mediated talks in Vienna aimed at ending Syria's civil war, in which hundreds of thousands have died and 11 million have been driven from their homes.
"The meeting was good", the head of the Syrian government delegation, Bashar al-Ja'afari, told Reuters as he left the U.N. offices in Vienna in the afternoon after talks with U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
"By definition I am optimistic..." As he told the press of Mistura, this special meeting takes place at a "very critical moment".
An opposition delegation arrived shortly before he left, but there was no sign the warring sides met.
The Sochi peace congress was announced after their last meeting in December.
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Western powers and some Arab states believe Sochi is an attempt to create a parallel political track that would undermine the United Nations and lay groundwork for a solution more suitable to the Damascus government and its allies.
At the last round in December, the Syrian government delegation objected to the opposition's tough line on the future of Assad, and those talks achieved nothing.
In Eastern Ghouta, a besieged rebel stronghold outside Damascus, at least 21 people suffered breathing difficulties on Monday, a monitor said, in a suspected chemical weapons attack by the regime that prompted a sharp USA warning to Russian Federation to rein in its ally Assad. "Very, very critical", he said on Wednesday. He said the talks would be a test of all sides' commitment to a political solution rather than a military one.
Russian Federation is scheduled to host separate peace talks next week, inviting representatives of the opposition and the Assad government, which it supports. A new Constitution for Syria is high on the agenda, but renewed fighting has prompted skepticism that the talks will succeed.
The scales tipped even more Assad's way after US President Donald Trump withdrew aid to mainstream rebels in favour of focusing on the fight against Islamic State militants, whose "caliphate" in eastern Syria collapsed past year. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will also attend.
"We want to put Geneva back at the centre of the game and that's what we agreed", said a French diplomatic source.
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