UN announces creation of a committee on Syria that will include regime and opposition representatives to draft a post-war constitution
The UN special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen arrived in Damascus for fresh talks on forming a constitutional committee to revive a stalling peace process to end the eight-year war, on September 23, 2019.
"I firmly believe that the launching of a Syrian-organised and Syrian-led Constitutional Committee can be the beginning of a political path towards a solution" to the years-long war, Guterres told reporters. The committee is to include 150 members — a third picked by the regime, another third by the opposition, and the remaining third by the United Nations.Monday's announcement came after Guterres said last week that an agreement had been reached concerning the "the composition of the committee."
It is also unclear what the committee might achieve. Damascus hoped to amend the current constitution, while the opposition wants to write a new one from scratch.Numerous rounds of UN-led peace talks have failed to end a war that has killed more than 400,000 people and displaced millions since erupting in 2011 with the repression of anti-regime protests.
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