According to diplomats familiar with the situation, US and Russian officials have begun the process of writing the new constitution for Syria, with officials saying they want the framework in place by August.
The plan has always been for the Syrian civil war to be resolved by a new constitution leading to elections, but the absence of any Syrian involvement in the penning of the new document is conspicuous, underscoring how much of the effort is still just the international community imposing a “solution” on Syria.
Not that it necessarily makes the process any easier, as the US is continuing to take the position that the constitution needs to restrict certain Syrian officials, including President Assad, from ever participating in elections again.
Russia, by contrast, has insisted that the free elections in Syria should be open to all, and that the future government of Syria should be up to Syrians. This support for Syrian self-determination doesn’t appear to extent to writing their own constitution.
The US is also pushing hard for a heavily centralized state dominated by a handful of leaders, while Russia has been more supportive of a federal Syria, with considerable autonomy for several regions, particularly Syrian Kurdistan.
They may want to re-focus their efforts on fighting IS.
Next, write one for Palestine the same way. And define its borders too.
Whatta ya mean no Syrian involvement? Russia is negotiating ‘for’ Syria.
Did anyone ask the Syrian people what they would like?
Just as I thought good cop bad cop. NWO is alive and well. Putin and his BRICs are just a false front to keep any real global opposition from ever coming about. Assad is gone. The only thing Russia is trying to do is make sure they get a piece of the pie, whatever that is. As long as Gazprom and co get some profit from any new oil pipeline coming from Iran, that is all they care about.