Four years have passed since the Astana track started, and three years since Sochi, and the two tracks have played a crucial role that can be summarized in the following main points:
First: The two tracks, particularly after the dead end the Geneva track kept on hitting for several years, were able to prevent the political process from being buried as the West had sought, and as the extremist Syrian sides wanted.

The crux of the political proposition promoted by the extremists is that the ongoing conflict is merely a “struggle for power”. In this manner, they are trying to undermine the right of the Syrian people to self-determination, which constitutes the essence of UNSC Resolution 2254, and turn it into the “right” of the political sides to share power over the Syrian people, or the “right of the victor” among them to monopolize that power.

The media space is filled these days with all kinds of political lies and various types of “proposals for solutions” that have in common the fact that they are all outside UNSC Resolution 2254. One such example is the talk about a “military council”. Moreover, there are those who are deluded or delude others that there is a possibility in Syria for normalization with the Zionist entity, and those who propagate this delusion do not know that whoever takes such a step in Syria is committing a public and free suicide.

Talk about a “military council leading the transitional phase” is still going on in the media outlets and social media platforms. It is understandable that some Syrians, through their interaction therewith are expressing their urgent need to get out of the catastrophic and deadly swamp of the grinding crisis that has been going on for 10 years, even if by “clinging to invisible ropes”. However, what must be understood are the objectives of those who manufacture the invisible ropes and get people embroiled in clinging thereto.

In a few weeks, it will be ten years since the crisis exploded in the country, a crisis that multiplies in severity and pressure every year.

A few days ago, the Syrian Constitutional Committee wrapped up its fifth round of work, and as expected, without any results. It has become quite clear, through experience, what we have repeatedly emphasized, which is that the Constitutional Committee is merely a key to the political process, that is, a key to implementing UNSC Resolution 2254, and it cannot accomplish definitive results without achieving two things:

On Monday, the 25th of this month, the works of the fifth round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee – which has not accomplished anything significant up to the present moment – will begin.

Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mr. Sergey Lavrov held talks with a joint delegation of representatives of Moscow Platform of the Syrian opposition and Cairo Platform of the Syrian opposition, today in Moscow.

On the surface, it seems as if the Syrian crisis will continue for many years to come. Of course, one cannot blame ordinary Syrians who believe this insinuation, for many reasons, including:

Statements by Macron, Merkel, and other European leaders regarding the “Black Wednesday” the US lived were not statements of “solidarity”, but rather an expression of panic and fear of the horror of the scene that threatens of the “water reaching their shores”.