Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Geneva, SANA-Sources close to the civil society delegation in Geneva said that sessions of the second day of the meetings of the Mini-Committee on discussing constitution didn’t start on Tuesday due to the intransigence of the Turkish regime’s delegation and its rejection of the agenda.
SANA’s delegate to Geneva quoted sources from the civil society delegation as saying the Turkish regime’s delegation is still intransigent in rejecting the agenda in a time when the office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen affirmed to journalists that work is underway with the Committee of Discussing the Constitution.
The Committee was scheduled to start its second round on Monday and it will last for five days as the national delegation on Monday submitted a proposal under the title” National Bases of Interest to the Syrian People,” yet it didn’t obtain response to its proposal and it leaved the UN headquarters.
The Mini-Committee held its first round between Nov. 4-8 as it adopted an agenda proposed by the Syrian Government-backed delegation which also presented a proposal that mainly includes combating terrorism and drying up its resources, in addition to condemning the countries which support it, but the group of the Turkish regime rejected it.
The Mini-Committee consists of 45 members, 15 from the national team, 15 from members of the delegation of other parties, and 15 from members of the delegation representing civil society.
On November 1st, the expanded body of the Committee of Discussing the Constitution which consists of 150 members agreed on the members of the Mini-Committee and it approved a paper on the Code of Conduct and the measures which govern the work of the expanded and small bodies.
Ruaa al-Jazaeri
