
Five current and former European members of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday said they held the Syrian regime responsible for the Syrian Constitutional Committee's failure to achieve a substantive progress in the negotiations that have been taking place for over a year. Estonia, France, Ireland, Belgium and Germany said in a joint statement following a Security Council briefing that the Syrian regime continues to obstruct the negotiations and refuses to constructively engage with the proposals submitted by the UN special envoy and the Syrian opposition. "Unfortunately, despite five rounds of discussions over the past year and a half, we regret that no substantial progress has been made at these meetings towards the drafting of a constitutional reform in […]
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