NAIROBI, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's negotiators trying to find long-term solutions to avoid a repeat of awful post election violence that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and displaced 350,000 others have unveiled a roadmap to a new constitution.

    Members of the National Dialogue and Reconciliation team told journalists late Tuesday that two key bills expected to kick-start the stalled constitutional review will be published on Friday.

    Among the contents of the road map are the Constitution Amendment Bill and the Referendum Bill.

    "The minister for constitutional affairs will be publishing the road map by Friday and Parliament will have an opportunity immediately after the budget discussions to debate and approve so that we can have a new constitution," said Agriculture Minister William Ruto.

    The new law has been elusive for close to two decades despite frantic efforts to have the current constitution altered.

    To save time, the negotiators, all of them cabinet ministers, resolved to anchor the constitution review process on documents that were prepared in the run up to the 2005 referendum.

    "A lot of work and time has been spent in this process. We will certainly not be starting from scratch since we have basic documents that will help us starting from the Bomas work, documents that came from Kilifi and the Naivasha accord and I think on that basis we will be able to expedite the country's quest for a new constitution," said Ruto.

    Once published, the Bills will then be expected to be tabled before Parliament in two weeks for debate.

    Ruto termed this as the first major step towards granting the country with the much-needed document after more than two decades wait.

    "We are expecting the two bills to probably be introduced to Parliament once debate on the budget presented last week is finalized," said Ruto who is also a member of the negotiation team.

    The bills will establish how the law review will be funded, amend sections 46, 47, 54 and 60 of the current Constitution for the purposes of making a new one and entrench the process in the current Constitution, among others.

    Ruto told journalists that claims that the review will start from the scratch, including soliciting views from the public were incorrect.

    "We shall definitely not be starting the process from scratch as many think," he said. According to the roadmap by members of the mediation talks, the constitutional experts would identify issues in all the available drafts on the constitution, which are contentious and which are not.

    The country came close to getting the document in 2005 but members of public shot down in a referendum over a number of contentious issues, which are expected to be fine tuned in this new attempt.