After he performed his sabotaging role over two and a half years within the Negotiations Commission in its second version, and before that for about another two years in the delegation of the Negotiations Commissions in its first version, al-Hariri is continuing these days his sabotaging actions.

Член Президиума Центрального совета Партии народной воли Кадри Джамиль подтвердил, что меморандум о взаимопонимании, который был подписан с Ассамблеей демократической Сирии 31 августа этого года, представляет собой качественный скачок в политической жизни Сирии. Он также указал, что они планируют в дальнейшем развивать более тесное сотрудничество с АДС.

For the second time in nearly two weeks, the US finds itself alone against the greatest majority of the Security Council members in a proposed resolution. While the details vary, the main idea is that the US is increasingly and more publicly getting isolated in this international forum, something that is indicative beyond the specifics of the issues on the table, and a sign of the rapidly changing balance of international powers and the emergence out of the ill-fated unipolarity.

Last Saturday, the third round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee wrapped up its work in Geneva, and it does not seem to have produced anything new compared to the preceding two rounds. I will not talk here about the feasibility of this Committee, or more precisely, its expected contribution to the political process as a whole. This is not to avoid how problematic the issue is and the conflicting opinions about it, but simply because I myself do not have a definite opinion on whether or not this Committee will actually contribute to getting Syrians out of their crisis… although I hope it will.