Iran Press/ Middle East: The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Sunday the government and opposition co-chairs of the Syrian Constitutional Committee had agreed to draft a new constitution.
The drafting committee, comprising 45 representatives of Syria’s government, opposition and civil society, has a mandate to draw up a new basic law leading to UN-supervised elections, Reuters reported.
Special Envoy Geir Pedersen said its Syrian co-chairs, who he met together for the first time ahead of week-long talks, had agreed to “prepare and start drafting constitutional reform.”
The talks, the sixth round in two years and the first since January for the drafting committee, will discuss “clear principles,” he told reporters in Geneva, without elaborating.
Back in July, President Bashar al-Assad took the oath of office for a fourth term in war-ravaged Syria, after taking 95 percent of the vote.
President Assad touched on foreign efforts to devise a new constitution for Syria, saying those efforts "continue until today" and are pushed by some agents who try to put Syria at the mercy of foreign powers.
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