New Round of Syrian Constitutional Talks Starts with Opposition Presentation
GENEVA (AA) – A new round of talks involving the Constitutional Committee seeking a solution to the ongoing 11-year war in Syria started in Geneva on Monday as the opposition group presented details on the “basics of governance.”
The five days in the seventh round of talks are scheduled to end Friday and involve both the regime and the opposition, hosted at Geneva’s Intercontinental Hotel instead of at the Palais des Nations, the European headquarter of the UN.
Two sessions were held in the presence of UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen and the two co-chairs, one from the Syrian regime and one from the opposition.
The meetings were attended by members of the “Small Group” responsible for writing the new constitution.
This group consists of 15 representatives each from the regime of Bashar al-Assad, NGOs, and the Syrian opposition, and ended after eight hours.
A civil war began in March 2011 when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters with unexpected ferocity.
According to UN estimates, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions more displaced.
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