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Syrian government and opposition meet in talks on new constitution
Geir Pedersen, UN Special Envoy for Syria, speaks to the media about the sixth session of the Constitutional Committee Small Body, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, October 17, 202
SYRIAN government representatives and opposition groups met in Geneva today for United Nations-mandated talks after agreeing to start working on a new constitution.
“The two co-chairs now agree that we will not only prepare for constitutional reform, but we will prepare and start drafting the constitutional reform,” UN special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said on Sunday.
The 45-member committee tasked with negotiating the new document had not met since January, with Mr Pederson saying that the groups concluded they needed to move forward with the stalled talks.
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