'Work on Syrian constitution commission at key phase'

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 conflict over the names suggested for the commission by the Syrian regime and opposition, 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 office.</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.</p> <p>