Iran, Turkey, Russia agree on details of statement on Syria constitutional committee
Mehr News Agency – Representatives of Iran, Russia, and Turkey have agreed on the details of a statement announcing the establishment of the committee tasked with drafting Syria’s new Constitution. According to the official website of Iranian Foreign Ministry, the agreement was reached in a trilateral meeting of the representatives in the Swiss city of Geneva on Monday.
The meeting of the guarantor states of Astana Talks on Syria was attended by Iranian foreign minister’s special assistant for political affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Russian presidential envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev, and deputy undersecretary for foreign affairs of Turkey Sedat Onal.
The top negotiators of the three countries finalised the draft document of the final statement of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Turkey and Iran which would be held in Geneva on Tuesday, December 18.
It will be stipulated in the statement that the committee has been established through the joint intensive efforts of the three guarantor states and their close contact with the Syrian parties and the representative of the United Nations Secretary-General.
The statement will also officially announce the composition and names of the representatives of the government, opposition and civil society in the Syrian constitution committee will be officially announced.
Following their trilateral meeting, the senior negotiators from the three guarantor states of the Astana talks also met with UN’s Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura at the UN headquarters in the Swiss city.
They listed the names of the representatives of Syria’s civil society in the committee and made the required arrangements for the trilateral and quadrilateral meeting of the three foreign ministers and de Mistura.
