Our View: Geneva talks set modest goals, but will they deliver?

Everyone appears to have left Geneva relatively happy on Tuesday. It may be more accurate to say ‘not unhappy’ – anything else would be stretching it – because the anodyne outcome of the informal, five-party meeting was something everyone could live with for the time being. The low-stakes process imposed allows the two sides to stay in their respective comfort zones, at least until the next multi-party meeting in four