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Press Release from the Front for Change and Liberation (Moscow Platform)
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Tomorrow, Saturday, a regular meeting of the Syrian Negotiating Commission will be held, and today a meeting took place between the members of the commission and the special envoys for the Syrian file of a group of countries, including the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
The Occupying State, “Self-Defense”, and International Law
Written by Kassioun Research Unit
The Russian representative to the UN said in one of the many sessions held by the Security Council during the last few weeks to discuss the “Israeli” aggression against Gaza, and in response to the repeated Western argument for its unconditional support for the brutality of the Zionist entity based on “Israel’s” right of self-defense, the Russian UN representative said: “Israel has no right to defend itself because it is an occupying state.”
Bogdanov and Jamil’s Meeting Discusses Developments in Palestine and Syria
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Today, Wednesday, the Special Representative of the Russian President for Middle Eastern and African Affairs, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, met with the representative of the leadership of the Syrian Opposition Front for Change and Liberation, head of the Moscow Platform for the Syrian Opposition, and Secretary of the Popular Will Party, Dr. Kadri Jamil.
The belt and the road: the material basis to decolonization
Written by Mohannad Dlykan
In mid-October 2023, the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation will be held in Beijing. This coincides with the 10th anniversary of China’s launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which was practically launched in September and October 2013.
A phenomenon that recurs more than once ceases to be a coincidence and it becomes necessary to determine the law that governs it. This is what logic and scientific methods say with regard to studying phenomena, whether they are natural or social.
End of the Grain Deal and “New Israel”
Written by Kassioun Research Unit
The grain agreement signed between Russia and Ukraine, with Turkish mediation, ended on July 22. The agreement stipulated allowing transport of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea, provided that the shipments be inspected in the Turkish Bosphorus Strait, under supervision of Turkey and the UN, so that they would not be used to transport weapons.
The Americans are the Ones Who Stopped Aid Passage; Their Aim is Striking the Syrian-Turkish Settlement
Reem Issa
The Security Council failed earlier this July in extending the cross-border aid mechanism after expiration of UNSC Resolution 2672, which was adopted on January 9, 2023. This resolution was the last of a series of resolutions that started since adopting UNSC Resolution 2165 on July 14, 2014, according to which UN humanitarian agencies and their implementing partners “are authorized to use routes across conflict lines and the border crossings Bab al-Salam, Bab al-Hawa, Al Yarubiyah and Al-Ramtha… in order to ensure that humanitarian assistance… reaches people in need throughout Syria through the most direct routes, with notification to the Syrian authorities”.
Press Statement
Moscow Platform
Representatives of the Moscow Platform for the Syrian Opposition in the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) - Alaa Arafat, Youssef Salman, Sami Betinjane, Mohannad Dlykan - are heading to attend the SNC's next meeting on 2-3-4 June, in Geneva. This comes after an over 3.5 year interruption in the Platform's participation in any SNC activity, as a result of several pending controversial issues, especially since an arbitrary and illegal decision was taken against the Platform. The decision was to revoke the membership of one of the Platform's representatives in the SNC and its representative to the Syrian Constitutional Committee's Small Group, Mohannad Dlykan, after calling for transferring the Constitutional Committee's work to Damascus while securing the necessary guarantees for that, a position the Platform continues to see as the correct one and continues to demand it.
What Lies Behind Jordan’s Threats of a “Military Action” in Syria?
Written by Kassioun Research Unit
These days, the prevailing trend regarding the Syrian crisis, at least in appearance, is one towards reconciliation, settlements, and calming at the level of relations with the Arab countries and Turkey. That is despite what the extremists seek to promote against the settlement, particularly with Turkey.
Dreams of a Comeback of the “Small Group–Astana” Duality
Written by Kassioun Research Unit
Anyone following the Jordanian activity related to the Syrian crisis will notice that Jordanian officials are always keen to point out that their activity is carried out in coordination with the West, primarily with Washington and London.
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The undersigned patriotic democratic Syrian opposition forces believe that the decision of the Arab foreign ministers for Syria’s return to its Arab surroundings, and resume its participation in the Arab League institutions, comes in the context of the return of an Arab role with a positive outcome within the Syrian file, in a way that serves the aspirations of the Syrian people, and preserves Syria’s sovereignty and independence.
Over the last ten years – that is, in conjunction with the major conflict situations, popular movements, and chaos that prevailed throughout the Arab world and the surrounding region – the UAE has played roles far greater than its actual weight, whether economic, demographic, or geographical.
Has the Magnitude of Astana’s Insistence on the Syrian-Turkish Settlement Been Measured?
Written by Kassioun Research Unit
The intense work carried out by the Astana tripartite to reach a Syrian-Turkish settlement has entered the phase of high activity since the end of last year. As is known and stated, many security meetings took place between Syria and Turkey in Moscow over the past year, and even before that. However, the first meeting with a clear political dimension was that of the defense ministers of Syria, Turkey, and Russia in Moscow, on Wednesday, December 28, 2022.
5.6 Million is the Average Cost of Living for the Syrian Family at the Beginning of Ramadan
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With the end of the first quarter of 2023, and since before the beginning of the month of Ramadan, Syrians have directly witnessed significant increases in the prices of various necessary basic commodities. The average cost of living for a Syrian family of 5 has increased according to Kassioun index for the costs of living to jump to more than 5.6 million Syrian pounds (the minimum has reached 3,546,083 Syrian pounds). All this is happening while the minimum of wages (92,970 Syrian pounds, i.e., less than $13 a month) is still very meager and insufficient to actually cover anything from the basics of life.