“Washington will soon abandon Syria’s NE Autonomous Administration” – Syrian politicians

Speaking to North-Press about the Constitutional Committee, Syrian politicians considered that the interference of the external powers and contradictions of countries hampered any political orientation to speed up the maturity and adoption of the solution, while claiming that regional-international understandings would change the map of the region, especially in the east of the Euphrates.

Issam Khalil, a former member of the Syrian government parliament, told North-Press that everyone knows “Syrian government’s keenness to reach a political solution that puts an end to the suffering of the Syrians”, considering that the attempts to thwart these solutions “come from different political authorities that control the management of different political sides, or which finance terrorist groups”.

Khalil deplored the contradictions between the countries that supported the “terrorist war on Syria, with the Syrians they control, aiming at ensuring the continued destructive influence in the future of Syria”, which he believed to be “a hamper to any political orientation to speed up the maturity and adoption of the solution”.

He also expressed the readiness of Damascus to support any political orientation that alleviates the suffering of Syrians, “starting with its historical and constitutional responsibility, for the future of all Syrians, not only for a specific group that implement the Turkish, American projects or others”.

Representation in the Constitutional Committee included all segments and political orientations, while he believed that some misrepresented representation, and they considered that, “representation takes place as a separate political entity and parallel to the Syrian state”.

Moreover, Issam Khalil stressed that “the United States wouldn’t pay the costs of illusionists’ dreams regarding their alliance with the U.S. occupation of some Syrian territories”, and that Washington “will disappoint them when the political settlement turns into its international dimension”.

He added that Damascus has tried to clarify these issues and offer what it can to one of its components, but “some has rejected cooperation, which raised questions about the national dimension of the political project of those who reject dialogue”.

While the military situation in Idlib has been linked to “Turkey’s being uncommitted to obligations under Astana agreements”, according to Khalil, who did not confirm the “the ability of the Constitutional Committee to reduce or stop terrorism in Idlib, but the Syrian state has previously sought to stop the bloodshed by supporting any political endeavor that protects the Syrians”, Khalil said.

The former MP hoped that “Syrians seek for themselves a way out through a national dialogue, which is not tainted by foreign will and foreign projects”, explaining that “only the Syrian national project can protect all Syrians, no matter how well the foreign intelligence services use some of them, as some others served them well”.

In his interview with North-Press, Ouqab Yahya the vice-president of the Syrian National Coalition, denied the exclusion ofany Syrian side, as all that is agreed upon among the majority of the opposition.

The agreement, he continued, is based on the idea that “the existence of terrorist organizations as part of a public project was not necessary or feasible, as its absence does not change the importance of the Constitutional Commission, which suffers from many problems, including the long time it took to agree on the names”.

Yahya claimed that there is a clear and unequivocal position towards the opposition, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the terrorist groups, of whom he claimed he doesn’t deal with, pointing out that they’re not taken into consideration.

He stressed that HTS had done most damage to the Syrian opposition and movement groups, noting their continued demand that “these terrorist groups should not be included in these calculations, and a solution must be found for them, not limited to us only”.

Yahya added that things in Syria are changing and unstable, where the opposition groups controlled more than 70% of the Syrian territories, and significant wages of displacements took place. “However, the U.S.-Turkish consensus and understandings may produce some changes regarding the safe zone and the entire east of the Euphrates”, Ouqab Yahya said.