Syrian groups gather in Geneva to draft a new constitution for the war-torn country
The Syrian Constitutional Committee has agreed to start drafting a new constitution, the UN’s special envoy for Syria announced on Sunday.
The members of the “Middle Third” of the constitution committee, consisting of 15 members apiece from the Bashar al-Assad regime, NGOs, and the Syrian opposition, are meeting again in Geneva after a nearly nine-month hiatus. He said that the drafting committee has met five times, but after the fifth meeting this January, it concluded that they were “not making sufficient progress.”
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