The national delegation in the Mini-Committee of Discussing the Constitution leaves the United Nations headquarters for not receiving a response on its agenda proposal

The national delegation in the Mini-Committee of Discussing the Constitution left today the United Nations headquarters in Geneva as a result of not receiving a response on its agenda proposal as the second round of meetings was scheduled to be held.

Sources close to the Constitutional Discussion Committee in Geneva reported that the national delegation had proposed an agenda on the Committee’s discussions under the title “National pillars of interest to the Syrian people”.

The pillars contained a set of national items to be agreed upon as a basis for the work of the Committee as a whole, the sources indicated.

After discussions with UN Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pederson on the agenda, sources close to the committee said the national delegation had left the UN headquarters for not receiving a response on its agenda proposal.

SANA’s delegate to Geneva said that no meetings of the committee would be held today after the departure of the national delegation, noting that there is information about the possibility of holding it tomorrow.

Issam al-Zibaq, a member of the civil society delegation, told SANA reporter that we want a clear agenda that focuses on the national principles, mainly the Syrian Arab Army, condemning any aggression on Syrian territory, whether it is Turkish, American or Israeli, and agreeing on the legitimate right of the state to defend the country’s soil before discussing the amendment or reform of the Constitution. He pointed out that the other party still rejects these principles for its interests and external links.

“The other party rejected the existence of a national base for dialogue, which is to be Syrian-Syrian. Whoever receives signals from other countries should say so frankly. We want to set upa Syrian constitution for the Syrians, not on the mood of international interventions,” Mays Kreidi said.

She added that we are advocates of dialogue and we come today to do so and we will continue the issue until the end, but the party that wants to talk on behalf of another country has to present itself openly.

The mini-committee held its first rounds between the 4th and 8th of November, where a proposed agenda was adopted by the national delegation, which also presented “no paper”, centering mainly on combating and eradicating terrorism and condemning the countries supporting it, but the Turkish regime team rejected it.

The mini-committee includes 45 members, 15 members of the national team, 15 members of the Turkish regime team and 15 members of the civil society delegation.

On November 1, the expanded committee of the 150-member constitutional discussion committee agreed on the members of the mini-committee and approved a code of conduct paper and procedures that govern the work of the expanded and mini-bodies.

Inas Abdulkareem