
President of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies Osama Kadi delivers a speech at a media confrence in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug. 14, 2013. The Syrian opposition on Wednesday unveiled here a proposed "roadmap" to achieve "national reconciliation and justice" in the conflict-stricken country. The roadmap drawn up by a group of about 300 Syrian human rights activists, academics, judges, lawyers and opposition figures, covers topics of constitutional, political, electoral, security, and economic reforms, and transitional justice in the post-conflict Syria. (Xinhua/Lu Zhe)