Russia’s Putin calls for Activating Syrian Constitution Committee
The Russian president Vladimir Putin has called for the activation of the Syrian Constitutional Commission coinciding with the Turkish side’s refusal quoted by the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, on some names included in the committee’s list.
Vladimir Putin stated in The Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe, emphasizing on the necessity of “The formation and the launch of the Syrian Constitutional Committee to draft the Constitution.”
The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu while commenting on the Syrian Constitutional Committee, stressed on “Turkey’s objection on the inclusion of some certain names in the committee”.
During his meeting with a Turkish news agency, Çavuşoğlu stressed, “There is a problem with six people in the list of civil society, who don’t represent the civil society,” adding that “Among these personalities, a former governor of the Syrian Central Bank, a political party leader, and a public prosecutor, the United Nations, and Turkey object those names.”
While the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin has discussed with the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s senior advisor for political issues Ali Asgar Haji the work of the Syrian constitutional committee, last week in Geneva.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the two sides gave “Great interest to the situation in Syria, emphasizing on the task of forming and launching the work of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva as soon as possible.”
A few months ago, the Syrian Government, the opposition and the United Nations have submitted three lists of the Constitutional Committee, each list includes 50 names, while earlier, there was a violent backlash between the government and the opposition figures over the six rejected names of the civil society list.
Yahya al-Aridi, head of the media office of the Supreme Negotiating Committee, in a previous interview with North-Press accused the Syrian Government of creating “obstacles” and using “pretexts” in order not to engage in the political process, stressing that the Syrian Government is driven by Russia, he said, “Russia is trying to exempt the Syrian regime from the responsibility of obstructing the formation of the Constitutional Committee and to throw blame on others.”
“The Constitutional Committee is not the political solution, and it doesn’t affect the political affairs in Syria that much, it’s just a gate to a political solution through the implementation of the international resolutions, the Geneva Declaration and Resolution 2254,” Yahya al-Aridi added.
NPA