WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd November, 2018) The United States is making all effort to ensure the establishment of the Syrian Constitutional Committee in the weeks ahead, in compliance with the agreement that the participants of the Istanbul summit on Syria reached, US Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey said.
"That is a commitment of the Russian Federation as well as of three other important European states. So thus we think that [UN Special Envoy for Syria] Steffan de Mistura has achieved a great deal � unless of course there is a problem with that commitment. But we are doing our best to ensure that this commitment is carried out in the weeks ahead," Jeffrey said in an interview with RIA Novosti news agency and Kommersant newspaper.
"Well, we believe that, assuming those leaders were sincere in making this commitment � and these leaders can do this, it is not something the Syrian government can hold a veto over, that's clear from UN Resolution 2254 � we think that this will happen and that Mr. Pedersen's mission will be to build on that Constitutional Committee, shepherd it's work forward, and prepare the way for the elections also called for in the UN resolution," he added.
