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UN mediator to head commission to draft new Syria constitution

January 29, 2018 at 10:03 am

United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura will head a new constitutional commission that will be set up at a peace conference in Russia this week, the Interfax news agency reported today, citing official documents.

Russia is hosting a two-day Syrian Congress of National Dialogue in the Black Sea resort of Sochi today and tomorrow which it hopes will launch talks on drafting a new constitution for Syria.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed preparations for the Syria peace congress with Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in a phone call on Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry said yesterday.

On Friday, the Syrian opposition declared it would not attend the meeting.

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