«America will never be a socialist country», said Donald Trump in his annual State of the Union address, in front of members of the Congress a few days ago. Not only this, but he also added: «We are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country».
The dangerous living conditions of the vast majority of Syrians are steadily increasing, and by their timing with the new Western sanctions, they are reaching a new threshold that threatens to reproduce the crisis at a higher and more dangerous level than all previous levels.
During the last week, intensive Russian, Turkish and Syrian statements emerged on the Adana agreement which was signed between Syria and Turkey in 1998 concerning the way of dealing with the PKK. The statements of the three parties expressed their commitment and consensus to the agreement as a starting point to address the situation in northeastern Syria at least, if not along the entire Syrian-Turkish border, as stipulated in the agreement itself.
The term "safe zone" has returned to circulate again after it disappeared for consecutive years, through various statements by Trump, Erdogan and others, and this time it is about northeastern Syria, or parts of it.
Today's evening in Moscow, Mr. Geir O. Pedersen and his accompanying delegation met with Dr. Kadri Jamil, Head of the Moscow Platform of the Syrian Opposition, Secretary of People's Will Party.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the Russian President's Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Bogdanov, met today with the representative of the leadership of the Change and Liberation Front and Head of the Moscow Platform of the Syrian Opposition Dr. Kadri Jamil.
16 января специальный представитель Президента Российской Федерации по Ближнему Востоку и странам Африки, заместитель Министра иностранных дел России М.Л.Богданов принял представителя руководства сирийского оппозиционного Фронта за перемены и освобождение, руководителя «Московской платформы» сирийской оппозиции К.Джамиля.
The overwhelming majority of Syrians suffer from severe economic and living conditions in which the crisis continues unabated, from electricity to gas and fuel oil to exchange rate disruptions, the rapid deterioration of public services and transport crises, as well as the crisis of constant increases prices, including the prices of the basic necessities for survival.
The few weeks following the US declaration of withdrawal from Syria proved the truth of what we went to and summarized in two key points:
The turning that are being made by a group of Arab countries, in its deep essence, reflects a number of key facts, which can be summed up as follows:
