{"id":69814,"date":"2021-12-26T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=69814"},"modified":"2021-12-26T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:49:13","slug":"prominent-syrian-opposition-figure-seeks-for-new-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/69814\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Syrian opposition figure seeks for new step"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>Former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab, who defected from the Syrian government in 2012, is leading a movement of Syrian opposition powers to hold a seminar in the Qatari capital, Doha, next February, to discuss paths to a political solution to the Syrian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hijab&#8217;s move comes to stir the political situation in the Syrian opposition scene. Opponents believe that he may seek to produce new political bodies and platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports have recently leaked information regarding a restructure project at the hands of the dissident former Prime Minister, Hijab, and directly supervised by Turkey and Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a decade of the Syrian war, the opposition with its different entities failed to unify its ranks and could not present a serious alternative for the current &#8220;regime&#8221; in Syria. As a result of the successive field losses, it has become weak, its leaders dispersed and acted according to the agenda of their supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is scheduled that many Syrian opposition figures from different currents will be invited to participate in its sessions that will be held in Doha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The symposium is organized by three opposition study centers (Harmon, Jusoor and Omran), which are preparing 25 research papers to be discussed in 8 sessions, according to media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reports indicated that there are research papers from a number of academics dealing with the paths to a political solution, whether in Geneva or Astana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reports revealed that more than 60 Syrian opposition figures are invited to attend the seminar, most notably the former president of the Syrian Coalition, Moaz al-Khatib, George Sabra, and some personalities who participated in the opposition meeting at the Riyadh Conference 1 held in 2015 and were later excluded from the Riyadh Conference 2 held in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of the National Coalition, Salem al-Maslat, the head of the Syrian Negotiations Committee Anas al-Abdah, and the co-chair of the Constitutional Committee Hadi al-Bahra will also participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The symposium will discuss most of the political files related to the negotiating process, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reports further explained that it is too early to talk about the results of this symposium, as it may result in a new political platform, and it may remain in the research context and nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early this month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met Hijab in the Qatari capital, Doha, where they discussed developments in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the second meeting during 2021 bringing the Turkish Foreign Minister and the dissident Prime Minister together. In March, they met in Doha without disclosing issues discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hijab\u2019s project, which does not call for unification with Moscow and Cairo platforms or partnership with the Salvation Government, abandons the idea of toppling the Syrian government as a way to reach the new Syria, which is intended to have moderate policies and isolates itself from the region\u2019s conflicts under the slogan of national interest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this practically means normalization with Israel, and moving away from the resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project rules out many prominent personalities of the opposition and shows Hijab as a personality running an entity parallel to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Mu\u2019az al-Hamad<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a decade of Syrian war, the opposition with its different entities failed to present a serious alternative for the current &#8220;regime&#8221; in #Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-politics","category-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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