SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said on Friday that the sixth round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee had been a “big disappointment”.
The U.N. Envoy said the committee failed to find a common way to draft a new constitution or agree on a date for the next round, according to Reuters.
The drafting committee, comprising 45 representatives of Syria’s government, opposition and civil society, has a mandate to draw up a new Charter leading to U.N.-supervised elections.
The decade-old war, which spiralled out of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, sparked the world’s biggest refugee crisis. Syria’s neighbours host 5.6 million refugees and European countries more than 1 million.
After support from ally Russia, Assad has recovered most of Syria, but significant areas remain outside his control: Turkish forces are deployed in much of the north and northwest and U.S. forces are stationed in the Kurdish-controlled east and northeast.
(Esta Media Network/Reuters)
