Geneva talks: Is Syria's new constitution a mission (im-)possible?
Expectations were high for the fifth round of meetings of the Syrian Constitutional Committee's at the UN in Geneva this week. But the report of the preliminary end of the committee's work is devastating.
The Syrian constitutional committee seeks to end the conflict and find a path to peace under UN mediation
Geir Otto Pedersen had chosen surprisingly upfront words, given the diplomatic balancing act of the past five days at the Syrian Constitutional Committee: "We can't continue like this, the week has been a disappointment," the head of the UN's Special Envoy for Syria concluded on Friday evening. In other words, the fifth round of Syrian constitutional talks ended without any tangible achievement and without a date for a further meeting.