The atmosphere is rapidly being prepared for a near breakthrough within the political solution process. This is based on the exacerbating US weakness, which leads them to concessions that start undeclared and will not be long before they become fully public.
These days, there are a heavy condensation of intensely contradictory signals regarding the Syrian situation. On the one hand, the escalation is continuing, the sanctions are continuing, the economic, political and military pressures are continuing and growing, too, and the extreme behavior of those who reject the solution from Syrians and non-Syrians is taking more direct and clear forms.
Mr. Nasser al-Hariri, the Head of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC), launched today, in his interview with the Middle East Journal, a new provocative declarations considering that Moscow had "turned into a party in the conflict", and he even called on the United Nations to jump over the "Veto" in order to spare Al-Nusra Front and its followers from the strikes they are receiving, and this is under the usual eternal pretext of "defending civilians"!
On Monday, May 13, [2019], a meeting was held between the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov, and the Secretary of the People's Will Party, Member of the leadership of the Syrian Front for Change and Liberation, the Head of the Moscow Platform of the Syrian Opposition Dr. Kadri Jamil.
Almost all of those presenting their readings of the Syrian situation are in a position to say that a period of major compromises and changes is looming on the horizon, but each side has its own interpretations of this, and its own expectations for the essence of future settlements.
This morning (Tuesday, 7 May), a statement was issued by the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC), regarding the ongoing escalation in the Syrian province of Idlib, its countryside and the northern countryside of Hama governorate. The statement ignored any mentioning of the cause of the escalation which is the repeated attacks by the Al-Nusra Front terrorist organization and the similar organizations, not the last of which the killing of tens of victims in the past two days.
The blockers of political solution, the Westerners and their followers and supporters in the various parties, have been accustomed to be in solidarity with each other along the past bitter years. Their plan has always been to keep the suspended files on hold, while using one file at a time as the main tool for hindering, while pretending to be flexible with the other files.
Over the last few weeks, the attack on Russia and the Russian role in Syria have increased from several sources used to be assumed as connected to various Syria parties. On top of the issues on which this attack was based: the issue of the Zionist soldier, the Tartous port issue, and the latest Astana meeting and its consequences. Although much of the facts and data on these three issues are still undeclared and are being deliberately manipulated and falsified, their profound interpretation does not stop there.
During the past week, emerged a number of indicators of the beginning of the transition from the secret to the public, with regard to efforts to calm the regional situation, and gradual transformation towards normal forms of cooperation instead of hostility. This includes bilateral relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia and Syria, and between Syria and Turkey.
Statement by People's Will Party
