CAIRO (Sputnik) — Some 200 delegates took part in a two-day political crisis settlement conference that opened in the Egyptian capital on Monday. The country's biggest opposition group, Turkey-based Syrian National Council, was notably absent from the gathering.
"We do not represent all the Syrians, revolutionaries or the opposition at the conference, but we aim to develop a new unifying point of view to solve the Syrian problem," Firas Khalidi told RIA Novosti.
Khalidi said all participants emphasized the need to combine the fragmented opposition into a constructive force. He expected the sides to adopt a declaration at the end of the conference on Tuesday.
"We still have meetings, negotiations to produce a consolidated path toward political transformation in Syria," the organizer told RIA Novosti.
Khalidi listed reforms in state bodies, the army, transition of power and construction of a democratic society among the work ahead of the group.
Cairo hosted the previous Syrian crisis settlement talks in January, which gave way to a 10-point political reforms and crisis settlement document.
Syria has been engulfed in turmoil since the 2011 anti-government protests that erupted into a full-scale civil war. A number of military groups, including extremist organizations such as the Nusra Front and Islamic State, are attempting to oust the ruling regime.
The death toll from the conflict has been estimated by the United Nations to stand at over 220,000, with millions more displaced amid the regular fighting.
