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CCSDS Track 1 – Priorities for Negotiation

8. Victims, Refugees and Internally Displaced People • Ensure that sufficient humanitarian assistance, including food and medicine and other relief aid and support, is delivered to internally displaced people and those living in besieged areas. Improve the situation of Syrian refugees living outside Syria. External governments should facilitate them to live a dignified life and

CCSDS Track 1 – Priorities for Negotiation

9. Prisoners, Detainees and Disappeared • Freedom of movement, security and safety must be guaranteed for all. The regime and opposition groups must stop lifting people at checkpoints and targeting and abducting people in any way. They must enforce and monitor this strictly with their armed groups. The UN, the parties and external governments must

CCSDS Track 1 – Priorities for Negotiation

10. Trials, Punishment, Amnesty and Getting Truth and Recognition • As part of the transitional justice process, there should be a transitional justice commission and/or a program of sessions, discussions and dialogues to get to the truth. This should engage combatants who have not committed gross violations and crimes as well as victims and survivors;

CCSDS Track 1 – Priorities for Negotiation

10. Trials, Punishment, Amnesty and Getting Truth and Recognition • As part of the transitional justice process, there should be a transitional justice commission and/or a program of sessions, discussions and dialogues to get to the truth. This should engage combatants who have not committed gross violations and crimes as well as victims and survivors;

CCSDS Track 1 – Priorities for Negotiation

Controversial points: There are a lot of controversial points among the Syrian people both at the grass-root and elite levels. These points could be dealt with in later stages of the process at a time when an agreement on them becomes essential to ensure a conclusive building process that everybody agrees upon: • Prisoners, detainees

CCSDS Track 1 – Priorities for Negotiation

12. Human Rights and Equality • Syria must comply with international standards and laws, especially all human rights standards and laws. Syria should remove any reservations it has recorded under any international human rights instruments. The international standards and laws should be incorporated into the national constitution and laws. Effective mechanisms should be instituted to