On Tuesday, 12/9/2017, Melody FM radio held an interview with the secretary of the People Will Party and the leader in the Change and Liberation Front, Alaa Arafat. In the interview Arafat discussed the latest political developments at the global, regional and local levels. Here are some of the most important questions and answers in this interview.
The declaration of breaking the siege imposed on Deir al-Zour represents a new phase in the history of the Syrian crisis. Most analyses and readings of the event indicate that it is a continuation of the series of field defeats of Daesh [ISIS] terrorist organization. In addition, this event consolidates the appropriate atmosphere for a new advance on the path of the political process, and push it to the stage of direct negotiations between the regime and the opposition, especially as the process goes in parallel with expansion of the de-escalation zones.
Observers of evolution of the Syrian crisis since 2011 have noticed that any hardline position taken by any side has always led to equally hard line ones from the other side, so that the law of action and reaction was the predominant and determining factor in directing the development of events.
On August 15, 2017, Al-Alam TV channel interviewed Dr. Kadri Jamil, Head of Moscow Platform of Syrian Opposition, and the leader in Change and Liberation Front, and the Secretary of People Will Party. The interview lasted 25 minutes, during which Dr. Kadri spoke about the latest political developments regarding the efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, and about the de-escalation zones, and the Geneva and Astana talks, and the efforts to form one delegation of the Syrian opposition in preparation for a round of direct negotiations with the delegation of the Syrian Government in Geneva.
The Moscow platform of the Syrian opposition views the US missile strike on the Ash Sha'irat airfield near Homs as an aggression against the Syrian people and expects a "wise reaction" on it in short and long term from Russia, the platform’s representative Mohannad Dlykan told Sputnik.
