The regime reveals the remaining sticking point about the Constitutional Committee

The regime reveals the remaining sticking point about the Constitutional Committee

Jul 17 2019

ARK News: MP Mohammad Bashir al-Sharbaji, who attended the meeting of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem and the special assistant of the head of the Iranian Islamic Consultative Council for International Affairs Hussein Amir Abdul Lahian in Damascus, that there was the talk of positive development in the formation of the Committee to discuss the Constitution.

In a statement to Al-Watan newspaper of the Syrian regime, Al-Sharbaji pointed out that there was reference to the consensus on naming the names that were in dispute, but there is still disagreement over the mechanism of work of the Committee and the mechanism of voting on the resolutions and meetings, explaining that the Syrian regime requests that the vote by an absolute majority of 75 percent of the members.

He explained that the mechanism of voting will be agreed upon at the next trilateral summit of the Guarantors of Astana Russia, Iran and Turkey, and this may be achieved by the end of this month or the beginning of next month.

According to al-Sharbaji, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of the Syrian regime Faysal al-Miqdad said during the meeting that the Syrian regime's objection to some names was because he saw them as terrorists and their hands were stained with blood.

The constitutional committee consists of three parties, the regime, the opposition and the civil society which are chosen by the United Nations, and The ongoing disagreement was over some of the proposed names for the membership of that committee

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