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Today's summit in Sochi [17th September, 2018] between the Russian and Turkish presidents marked an important and significant step forward towards ending terrorism in Syria as well as towards consolidating the political solution to the crisis. The fourth de-escalation zone has gained greater momentum by becoming co-sponsored by Russia and Turkey, and this will help to get rid of the internationally classified terrorist groups more rapidly. This process will take place in accordance with new ways and methods different from what has been followed in other regions, for several considerations, the most important of which:
Dr. Jamil: There is not yet one list representing the whole spectrum of opposition
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Syrian Opposition meets Lavrentiev and Verchenin in Geneva
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Representatives of Moscow Platform, the Syrian Future Movement (Tayar Al-Ghad), and the Syrian National Democratic Congress met in today's afternoon (Monday 18/06/2018) with Mr. Alexander Lavrentiev, the Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Syria, and Sergey Vershinin, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, at the headquarter of the Permanent Mission of Russian Federation to the UN in Geneva.
Jamil: We are Working on Forming the Wide Representation List of Fifty
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Head of Moscow platform of the Syrian opposition, Dr. Kadri Jamil, in an interview with radio «Rozana» today, the 5th of June 2018, said that the lists relating to the Constitutional Committee, which will be submitted to Mr. Staffan de Mistura the, is not the lists of the constitutional committee, but lists of candidates among whom the Constitutional Committee to be chosen later on. Dr. Jamil added: "That is, the Syrian government has given 50 names. There are 50 names to be submitted by the opposition, and there are 50 names from civil society, and those (the latter group) will be named with a contribution by Mr. De Mistura."
Press Release by Moscow Platform on the Statement of Ankara Trilateral Meeting
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After Moscow Platform read the Joint Statement on the results of today's Ankara trilateral meeting of the heads of states of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, including its emphasis on the UNSC Resolution 2254 as the basis for the political solution in Syria, to ensure unity of Syria, its territorial sovereignty, the right of its people to self-determination, stressing on the Astana process and its important results, the need to quickly implement the results of the Syrian National Dialogue Conference in Sochi, especially with regard to the formation of the Constitutional Committee in cooperation with the United Nations, as well as the emphasis on the need to complete the fight against terrorism and complete the comprehensive cease-fire in Syria,
The full text of the joint statement, which was signed by Dr Hassan Rouhani, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday in Ankara is as follows:
Statement by Official Spokesman of People's Will Party on the Zionist Aggression
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The new Zionist aggression and bombing of Syrian military sites is an extension of the campaign of escalation initiated by the war forces in the US administration, whether directly through the US warplanes bombing of Syrian military sites in Deir al-Zour and the propaganda campaign about chemical weapons, or through the Turkish aggression on Afrin and other areas in the northern regions of Syria, or through the field escalation carried out by the terrorist "Al-Nusra Front".
Together to Stop the Turkish Aggression... Together for a Political Solution
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The Turkish aggression on the Afrin area continues for the third week. Media reports indicate considerable human and material losses and massive displacements of populated areas along the seam lines, adding a new chapter to the Syrian tragedy that has been going on for seven years.
In the past two days there has been a field escalation, mainly in Idlib and Afrin, and to a lesser extent in other parts of the country. But it is noticed that the magnitude of the media escalation is much greater than the actual escalation on the ground, in parallel to the preperation and helding of the UN Security Council meeting yesterday, the 5th of February 2018. In this regard, we records the following notes:
Statement by Moscow platform
The Moscow Platform participated in the National Dialogue Conference in Sochi on 29-30 January 2018, despite the large number of obstacles, obstructions, and provocations that have been put in the path of this participation by the extremists of various parties, including intimidation and terrifying campaigns.
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Syrian Negotiating Commission: not with nor against Sochi
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We are members of the Syrian Negotiating Commission of the opposition, who attended the meeting of the Commission in Vienna on 26-01-2018. We are 10 members who voted yes to the decision to go to Sochi, out of the 34 members who are the whole number of the attendance in Vienna, ie, the members of those who refused to attend in Sochi are 24. Since the ratio to pass any political decision in the Commission is 26 out of 36, that means the Commission has not made a decision not to go to Sochi, nor has it made a decision to go.
(Opinion of the Moscow platform of the Syrian opposition about Tillerson's non-paper on Syria):
The SNC of the revolutionary forces and the Syrian opposition
Press release from the presidency of the Moscow platform
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Our representative at the Riyadh meeting, Mr. Alaa Arafat, who was present as an observer for the reasons we had previously mentioned, objected to two paragraphs of the final communiqué of the meeting, namely, the departure of Assad at the beginning of the transitional period, because this is a precondition that undermines the negotiating process. He also objected to the paragraph concerning Iran, which neglects the fact that this country is one of the guarantors in Astana, and this paragraph only serves to aggravate the situation and results in making the Syrians lose more blood in favour of narrow interests.