Syria domestic, exiled opposition agree to roadmap
Syria's main domestic and exiled opposition groups said Friday they had agreed a joint draft roadmap for the first time calling for a transitional governing body and an end to the brutal conflict, AFP reported.
The draft document comes after representatives from the exiled Syrian National Coalition and the domestic National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCCDC) met in Paris.
"This is the first time that we have an agreement between both organizations, the Coalition and the NCCDC," said Khalaf Dahowd, a member of the NCCDC's executive bureau.
Dahowd said representatives from the two opposition groups met in Paris between Sunday and Tuesday, at talks hosted by France but carried out without international involvement.
"It was Syrian-Syrian. There was no foreign power involved. No one was in our meetings, and that was very good," he told AFP.