On Wednesday, Russia launched its initiative to establish a center for the reception of Syrian refugees returning to their country. In the following days Russia joined diplomatic mobilities with countries that have the largest number of Syrian refugees, in constant coordination with the United Nations organizations, especially the UNHCR. In response to this step, several local and foreign parties began an attack on Russia, which has become a routine with every new step towards the political solution in Syria.

The problem of displacement and asylum from the country has been one of the most tragic aspects of the Syrian crisis. This problem has affected millions of Syrians, and became, along with other issues, a field for international, regional and even local forces, to mess up the Syrian affair.

The head of the Moscow platform of the Syrian opposition Kadri Jamil affirmed today (17-07-2018) that there is no one list of the constitutional committee representing the entire spectrum of opposition from Geneva to Sochi through Astana, commenting on the statements of President Putin.

The latest developments in the war in Syria are heading towards the détente that marked the recent stage in general. In continuation of this détente, which we witnessed its last episode in the Syrian south, the opposite attempts continue for blowing up the agreements. As Idlib is the candidate region to deal with in the next stage. Many parties, each in its own style, are making repeated attempts to blow up the Astana Agreement, which was based on the tripartite understanding that emerged earlier this year between Putin, Erdogan and Rouhani in Sochi. They are even trying to undermine the tripartite understanding itself.

The events in the Syrian arena are accelerating towards further détente. From the remarkable development in the southern front, with the participation of some armed groups in the settlements held there, to the signals from the north-east about the readiness of the Kurdish "People's Protection Units" to engage in negotiations; and the frequent doubts about the US role, and the (albeit partial) changes in the US presence in the north; and the gradual return of internally displaced people from many areas of the country to their original areas of residence, and the relative détente in the security situation in some areas of the country; and the diplomatic mobility that took place for the formation of the Constitutional Reform Committee, with the readiness of wide forces of the opposition to submit the names of their representatives to the Committee, despite the reluctance of the Riyadh extremists.

The US and Russian presidents will meet in the Finnish capital on July 16, where the choice of time and place has several implications:

In the past few days, the city of Geneva witnessed extensive international and Syrian moves to form, and launch the work of, the Constitutional Reform Committee. The preliminary results indicate significant progress in this context, with the guarantors stressing the continuation of the process until its completion. In addressing the different attitude that have emerged toward this political and diplomatic movement, a number of issues must be emphasized:

Representatives of Moscow Platform, the Syrian Future Movement (Tayar Al-Ghad), and the Syrian National Democratic Congress met in today's afternoon (Monday 18/06/2018) with Mr. Alexander Lavrentiev, the Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Syria, and Sergey Vershinin, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, at the headquarter of the Permanent Mission of Russian Federation to the UN in Geneva.

The meeting of the Big Seven; the disagreements over the final communique; followed by the US president's quick withdrawal from what was agreed upon; then the European and Canadian hints about the possibility of dispensing with USA presence in the group. All of these events made up a new occasion conforming the division of the Western world, and another proof that what is happening is not just a trade war under the title of steel and aluminum, as promoted, or just divergent views on this or that issue, as rumored! What is happening is rather an expression of a deep structural crisis in the entire Western capitalist center, which touches upon its most important economic and political components. In this context comes the behavior of the United States of America against the background of "self-distancing" from the consequences of this crisis. USA actually knows more than others the depth of the crisis, because it is the center of the crisis.

Head of Moscow platform of the Syrian opposition, Dr. Kadri Jamil, in an interview with radio «Rozana» today, the 5th of June 2018, said that the lists relating to the Constitutional Committee, which will be submitted to Mr. Staffan de Mistura the, is not the lists of the constitutional committee, but lists of candidates among whom the Constitutional Committee to be chosen later on. Dr. Jamil added: "That is, the Syrian government has given 50 names. There are 50 names to be submitted by the opposition, and there are 50 names from civil society, and those (the latter group) will be named with a contribution by Mr. De Mistura."