DAMASCUS: The United Nations’s special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, on Sunday called upon Damascus to rejoin negotiations to revise the country’s constitution, warning that political talks were moving in the wrong direction.
Syria’s war, which started 13 years ago with protests, has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions and damaged the country’s infrastructure, economy and industry.
Pedersen, currently on a visit to Damascus has been trying to make progress constitutional committee for Syria to amend or rewrite the war-torn country’s constitution since October 2019, with little progress.
The Geneva talks stopped in 2022 after Damascus ally Moscow had objected to the talks being held in Switzerland, questioning its neutrality after it placed sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Pedersen told reporters in Damascus that the situation in Syria now is extremely complicated and all indicators are pointing towards the wrong direction when it comes to economy, security and the political process.
Pedersen after meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister said that the they continue to meet in Geneva and develop the constitutional committee and the work of the committee.
