Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin discussed with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura the political settlement of the Syrian crisis as well as creation of the Syrian Constitutional Committee, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday in a statement
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th September, 2018) Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin discussed with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura the political settlement of the Syrian crisis as well as creation of the Syrian Constitutional Committee, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday in a statement.
The meeting was held on Tuesday in New York, which is hosting the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly.
"During the meeting the current issues of the political settlement of the conflict in Syria were discussed. [The parties] paid a special attention to the tasks of forming and launching the Constitutional Committee in the context of implementing the decisions of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi and of the UN Security Council's Resolution 2254," the statement said.
The Syrian civil war has been raging for over seven years, with government forces fighting numerous terror groups and opposition factions. Russia along with Turkey and Iran are guarantors of the Syrian ceasefire agreement.
The settlement process for the Syrian conflict has been discussed on a number of international platforms, such as those in Geneva and Astana and the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Russia's Sochi. The main result of the Sochi congress was the decision to create a constitutional commission that would work in Geneva and focus on amending Syria's existing constitution.
