The exchange rate of the Syrian pound against foreign currencies continues to deteriorate, it reached an unprecedented level during the past two weeks, exceeding the ceiling of 700 Syrian pounds per US dollar. This reflects further deterioration in the living conditions of the vast majority of Syrians (85% of Syrians live in absolute poverty), and this deepens the Syrian tragedy and wounds in a disastrous way, with great risks at various levels.
In parallel to the start of the work of the Small Body of the Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva, Washington has launched three attitudes related to Syria; the first is to retreat from the total withdrawal and stay in the area of Syrian oil fields. The second is related to Idlib and US pressure to prevent elimination of Al-Nusra Front in Idlib. The third is also related to the northern part of Syria, where USA pushes to impede understanding and dialogue between the north-east forces in Syria and the Syrian government.
On November 6, 2019, Mikhail Bogdanov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African Countries, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia received the representative of the leadership of the Syrian opposition Front for Change and Liberation, Head of Moscow Platform of Syrian opposition, Kadri Jamil.
The Small Body of the Syrian Constitutional Committee held its first meeting this afternoon, Monday, November 4, 2019, at the United Nations Headquarter in Geneva, and approved its agenda for its first session, which was to examine the deliberations made by the members of the Expanded Committee last Thursday and Friday, for drawing the basic constitutional ideas contained in those deliberations, and enriching them with additional ideas to turn them all into discussion material.
Works of the Syrian Constitutional Committee were launched last Wednesday, October 30, more than a year and a half after the Syrian National Dialogue Conference in Sochi on January 30, 2018.
Since the announcement of formation of the Syrian Constitutional Committee by UN Secretary-General, Guterres, on the 23rd of Septemberm 2019, after the high pressure imposed by Astana trio in Ankra Summit held in September 16, it became clear that the Syrian situation reached and passed through a new turning point; a decisive one this time.
The mass demonstrations that erupted in Lebanon on Sunday (October 20th) have entered their fourth consecutive day, and they are gaining momentum more and more.
On October 12, 2019, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Middle East and Africa, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, met with Mr. Kadri Jamil, representative of the leadership of Change and Liberation Front, and Head of Moscow Platform of Syrian Opposition.
Turkey continues its aggression against the Syrian north with a clear US complicity, and positions of many countries formally meet with each other on "condemnation" of the aggression, while they are sharply different from each other in their objectives of condemnation, an this is evident in the practical mechanisms they call for as response to deter and end the aggression.
For the second day, Turkey continues its aggression against northeastern Syria, under various pretexts, chiefly the claim of "protecting Turkish national security".
