Moscow-Sana
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that significant progress has been made in the process of reaching a political settlement to the crisis in Syria.
"Significant progress has been made in terms of the political settlement process" of the crisis in Syria, Lavrov said in an interview with the Armenian news agency Medimax, citing the importance of the Astana talks in this regard.
Lavrov pointed out that the decision to form a committee to discuss the constitution came during the Syrian-Syrian national dialogue conference held in the Russian city of Sochi in January 2018.
The mini-committee to discuss the constitution concluded yesterday the first round of its meetings at the United Nations Building in Geneva with the participation of the delegation supported by the Syrian government and other delegations where the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Syria Ged Pederson at the end of the meetings that the Committee discussed many important issues Syria, its unity and territorial integrity, in addition to continuing the fight against terrorism, pointing out that the discussions were professional and successful.