The Small Body of the Syrian Constitutional Committee held its first meeting this afternoon, Monday, November 4, 2019, at the United Nations Headquarter in Geneva, and approved its agenda for its first session, which was to examine the deliberations made by the members of the Expanded Committee last Thursday and Friday, for drawing the basic constitutional ideas contained in those deliberations, and enriching them with additional ideas to turn them all into discussion material.

Works of the Syrian Constitutional Committee were launched last Wednesday, October 30, more than a year and a half after the Syrian National Dialogue Conference in Sochi on January 30, 2018.

Since the announcement of formation of the Syrian Constitutional Committee by UN Secretary-General, Guterres, on the 23rd of Septemberm 2019, after the high pressure imposed by Astana trio in Ankra Summit held in September 16, it became clear that the Syrian situation reached and passed through a new turning point; a decisive one this time.

The mass demonstrations that erupted in Lebanon on Sunday (October 20th) have entered their fourth consecutive day, and they are gaining momentum more and more.

On October 12, 2019, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Middle East and Africa, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, met with Mr. Kadri Jamil, representative of the leadership of Change and Liberation Front, and Head of Moscow Platform of Syrian Opposition.

Turkey continues its aggression against the Syrian north with a clear US complicity, and positions of many countries formally meet with each other on "condemnation" of the aggression, while they are sharply different from each other in their objectives of condemnation, an this is evident in the practical mechanisms they call for as response to deter and end the aggression.

For the second day, Turkey continues its aggression against northeastern Syria, under various pretexts, chiefly the claim of "protecting Turkish national security".

Turkey today began its blatant aggression against northeastern Syria under the pretext of protecting its national security, based on its ongoing intimidation from the “Kurdish threat”.

In Kassioun issue no. 924, we said that constitutional reform is the key to the solution. Today, we hold the key in our hands.

Very few people supported the idea of the Constitutional Committee from the beginning, about two years ago and during the preparations for the Sochi Conference, and then during that conference in early 2018. In contrast, there were a large number of rejectionists from several sides, part of them now returned to support the committee after it became a fait accompli.