On September 10, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African Countries, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov received the representative of the leadership of Front for Change and Liberation, the head of Moscow Platform of the Syrian opposition, Kadri Jamil.
The first thing to be recorded as an advantage of the memorandum of understanding signed between People’s Will Party and the Syrian Democratic Council in Moscow last Monday, 31/8/2020, is that it was the product of a Syrian-Syrian dialogue without intermediaries, and that it provided an example of how two different Syrian parties can make mutual concessions through dialogue, without abandoning their principles, in order to reach common ground.
The Front for Change and Liberation was informed of the activities carried out by the representative delegation in Moscow today, including the meetings with the Russian Foreign Ministry and its team headed by Mr. Sergey Lavrov, as well as the signing of a memorandum of understanding between one of the Front’s components (People’s Will Party) and the Syrian Democratic Council.
the full memorandum text:
During the last few months, US occupation in northeastern Syria has been subject to increasing pressures aiming to expel it from the country. Some of that has been through explicit calls to work against the occupation, and even more important than that what the direct actions we are seeing on the ground, albeit still limited.
The comic scene in which Washington found itself in the UN Security Council days ago, with one ally, the Dominican Republic, which is “microscopic” in size and weight, facing all other countries, represents a prototype of complete series of plays that we will witness through the coming months and years; Such is the case for historically crumbling empires, which, in their last days, turn into an ideal model of cynicism.
Among the six conditions he recently announced, James Jeffrey's third condition states the following: Ending hostile acts against neighboring countries.
Last Wednesday’s Astana Trio Summit Statement included 14 points, and it was distinct from the previous statements with broader coverage of the aspects of the Syrian issue.
The impact of international sanctions cannot be separated from the deterioration of all economic and social indicators in Syria, as the blockade is a major contributor to the deterioration of health indicators, such as: decrease in the average age, increase in child mortality rate, expansion of undernourishment, and others. The blockade is also a major contributor to economic deterioration based on all its indicators.
The two Syrian Kurdish sides – the Kurdish National Unity Parties, which includes 25 parties, and the Kurdish National Council – announced on the 16th of this month, that they had reached a preliminary agreement after many years dominated by a sort of disconnect between the two parties. There was even a dispute that reached the level of contradiction and an exchange of accusations on many occasions, despite the fact that there is between the two parties, or between major parts thereof, a history of a series of agreements – Hawler 1, Hawler 2, Dohuk – that did not succeed in reaching the desired objectives thereof.
