UPDATE – 'Work on Syrian constitution commission at key phase'

UPDATES WITH MORE REMARKS FROM TURKISH FM; REVISES DECK</p> <p>By Sena Guler</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – Work on a commission to revise the Syrian constitution has come to an important phase, said Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday after a meeting on Syria in Geneva.</p> <p>“There is no problem regarding the lists of the [Syrian] regime and the opposition for the constitutional commission,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters following a trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of guarantor countries — Iran, Russia and Turkey — and UN Special Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura at the UN offices.</p> <p>He said that guarantor countries of the Astana process and the UN are working together on the names that civil society had suggested for the commission.</p> <p>Cavusoglu added that they also discussed the commission's procedural rules, and they are close to a concluding this.</p> <p>He said the three countries would step up their efforts to see the commission formed “as soon as possible”.</p> <p>“We foresee the first meeting of this commission in the first month of next year,” he said.</p> <p>He added: “Today’s meeting is a sign of how important the Astana and Sochi process is for a political solution in Syria and that it has begun to produce concrete results.”</p> <p>Turkey will continue contributing to the process as an important actor, he said.</p> <p>In a final declaration, the ministers “reaffirmed their strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity” of Syria and called on all sides to respect those principles.</p> <p>During a Syrian peace conference this January in Sochi, Russia, participants agreed on the formation of a commission to develop recommendations to amend the Syrian constitution.</p> <p>Last Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia, Turkey and Iran will present a list of candidates for the commission to the UN. </p> <p>Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on protesters with unexpected ferocity.</p> <p>Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million others displaced, according to UN officials.

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