Politics

While the winds of Arab and Turkish reconciliation with the Syrian regime have swept away many barriers, a symbolic threshold still lingers, challenging its return to OIC.

Diverse demands and motivations fueling the popular protests and Instability in Deir_Ezzor, under SDF control. However, most of them are directly or indirectly tied to the state of local governance and its mechanisms used to manage these areas.

For the second time since the Astana track's inception in 2016, a meeting, led by Iran and involving the foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia, and Iran, was convened on September 22, 2023, alongside the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The discussion resurfaces with every electoral and political milestone within the Syrian political opposition regarding its legitimacy to represent the Syrian people.

The Arab Liaison Committee on Syria convened its maiden session in Cairo, advancing fresh proposals anchored in the Amman declaration's framework. Yet, there's a prevailing sentiment that the regime might revert to its familiar strategy of 'immersing in minutiae' in its interactions with the committee.

It has been a year since the talks of the Constitutional Committee have stalled, and recently several proposals have been put forward to resume its work in Muscat, Cairo, Kuwait, or other capitals and UN headquarters outside of Geneva.

The foreign ministers of the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states held a meeting in Riyadh to discuss the situation in Syria and Arab engagement in finding a solution to the crisis.

Despite four years of the UN Special Envoy's mission in Syria passed, it is clear that the step for step approach has not contributed to achieving progress in the political process. This is because it introduced new elements that are unrelated to the political solution, thereby complicating the prospects for implementing Resolution 2254.

Despite the Syrian regime has been isolated by the international community after 2011, it was notable that many countries engaged in negotiations with this regime even before the start of the normalization process by the end of 2018.

The Jusoor Center for Studies held a workshop in Istanbul yesterday, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, entitled "The US Stance on Normalization with the Syrian Regime". The event was attended by officials from the Syrian opposition institution, as well as Syrian US-based researchers, and other Syrian activists.

The visit of the Iranian president to Damascus coincides with a new wave of Arab normalization with the Syrian regime following the improvement of Saudi-Iranian relations. New initiatives for a solution in Syria emerged after meetings in Jeddah and Amman.