De Mistura meets with officials of Arab, Western countries to discuss constitutional committee

UN envoy De Mistura will meet next Monday with representatives of several Arab and Western countries in Geneva to discuss the Syrian crisis and the formation of the Syrian Constitutional Committee. The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed the need for a comprehensive list of opposition representatives including all major groups at home and abroad.

De Mistura meets with officials of Arab, Western countries to discuss constitutional committee
22 June, 2018   11:22

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The UN envoy to Syria, De Mistura, announced that he would host a meeting on Monday with senior officials from France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States to discuss developments in the Syrian crisis and the return of the Geneva process to a political process in Syria, Syrian Constitutional Committee.

De Mistura held at the beginning of the week, a similar meeting over two days with representatives of countries involved in the Syrian issue, which calls itself "Guarantor States", which are Russia, Turkey and Iran.

The meeting discussed the formation of the Syrian Constitutional Committee. There were reports of Russian-Turkish differences on the committee. Turkey is seeking to monopolize the entire quota allocated to the opposition, appointing its members in the committee and excluding the rest of the Syrian opposition, especially the internal opposition.

In another context, the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the list of opposition representatives to form the Syrian Constitution Committee, inclusive and include candidates for all major opposition groups at home and abroad.

"The Syrian government has already handed over Stephan de Mistura a list of its representatives in the committee, while the Syrian opposition has not yet established a similar list," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement issued following consultations between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Syrian Vice-President Khaled al-Mohamed. , Which must be inclusive and include candidates from all major internal and external opposition groups. "

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