{"id":20319,"date":"2018-10-30T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20319"},"modified":"2018-10-30T00:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T00:23:04","slug":"syrian-opposition-draws-up-road-map-for-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20319","title":{"rendered":"Syrian opposition draws up \u2018road map\u2019 for constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1395926\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nROME: The Syrian opposition on Monday presented a \u201croad map\u201d to peace, including steps to be taken ahead of an election and guidelines for a plan to write the country\u2019s post-war constitution.<br \/>The document, drawn up by representatives of the opposition invited to Rome by the Catholic Sant\u2019Egidio community, will be presented to key players in the conflict \u2014 from Russia to Turkey and the EU \u2014 over the next few weeks.<br \/>The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany on Saturday called for a political solution to the devastating seven-year civil war and a lasting cease-fire in the last major rebel-held bastion of Idlib.<br \/>Their statement called for a committee to be established to draft Syria\u2019s post-war constitution before the end of the year, \u201cpaving the way for free and fair elections\u201d in the war-torn country.<br \/>A rival UN plan for a committee to write the constitution ran aground last week, with UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura saying Damascus rejected the UN having a role in the selection process.<br \/>The \u201croad map,\u201d presented Monday by the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), the main opposition force, as well as several minor groups, details the shape a new government and parliament could take.<br \/>It calls for the make-up of the committee to \u201creflect the composition of the country\u201d and says all \u201carrangements\/rules\/law aiming at dissolving\/obstructing\/impeding the political activities of the opposition\u201d must be scrapped.<br \/>The commission, within a nine-month timeframe, should not only prepare the constitution but also draft party and electoral law.<br \/>A new transitional government should organize general and presidential elections through an election commission set up by the committee under the supervision of the UN, it said.<br \/>It also called for a \u201cgeneral amnesty\u201d and the \u201cabolition of all laws, legislations and procedures aimed at prosecuting and punishing the participants of the events in Syria\u201d since 2011, as well as the safe and voluntary return of refugees.<br \/>Over 360,000 people have been killed in the conflict since 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME: The Syrian opposition on Monday presented a \u201croad map\u201d to peace, including steps to be taken ahead of an election and guidelines for a plan to write the country\u2019s post-war constitution.The document, drawn up by representatives of the opposition invited to Rome by the Catholic Sant\u2019Egidio community, will be presented to key players in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}