Tracks of Syrian Constitutional Committee are with no results: SDC
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Tracks of the Syrian Constitutional Committee are “with no results and serve the interests of the countries that sponsor it,” Riad Darar, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), said on Tuesday.
The representatives of the regions of northeast Syria, including the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), have not been invited yet to attend the meetings of the Constitutional Committee in its six rounds, which were held during the past two years in the Swiss capital, Geneva.
In an exclusive interview with North Press, Darar said, “the absence of representatives of northeast Syria or the SDC from the meetings of the Constitutional Committee is due to the Turkish objection.”
“The Syrian opposition took a negative position towards the SDC, and did not accept its participation in the Negotiating Committee, an attitude that goes in line with Turkey’s position and policy in the region,” he added.
Two days ago, The last rounds of the Constitutional Committee began, as the co-chairs of the Constitutional Committee, Hadi al-Bahra (the opposition delegation) and Ahmed al-Kuzbari (the government delegation), held the first direct meeting before the start of the sixth round of the meetings of the Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva.
The Syrian High Negotiations Committee (HNC) was established on December 10, 2015 and emerged from the Riyadh Conference in Saudi Arabia, to negotiate directly with the Syrian government within tracks supervised by the United Nations.
Members of the HNC participated in the Geneva 3 and Geneva 4 meetings and the Astana negotiations. It consists of 32 members, nine of whom are from the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), ten are from the armed opposition factions, five are from the National Coordination Committee (NCC), and eight are independents.
The international attitude is not serious
Darar noted to the lack of seriousness in the attitudes of the UN representatives in the negotiations, “because they have served the interests of the countries interfering in the Syrian affairs at the expense of the Syrian people’s.”
The SDC official stated that they had received promises about the possibility of SDC participating in the committee’s meetings, given that it runs an area with a population of nearly five million people. However, those promises were broken.
“The SDC have realized from the beginning that the negotiation tracks are with no results and they go in line with the interests of the countries.”