The United Nations is close to agreement with Syria on setting up a constitution...
FILE PHOTO: United Nations Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen attends a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia July 5, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
“I believe we have made a very solid progress and we are very close to have agreement on establishing the constitutional committee,” Gerd Pedersen told reporters after meeting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem. A Syrian Foreign Ministry statement said significant progress had been made in the talks, but also reiterated its previous stance that the constitutional committee should be a purely Syrian affair.
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