12 years of conflict in Syria resulted in nothing but destruction, sabotage and displacement of millions of people, but this difficult path for the Syrians and the countries of the region stopped in time at the moment of dispersion and destruction, so that the Syrian crisis turned into an archive in the corridors and shelves of the United Nations, a lot of movement is little of verb.
Over the past years, the United Nations has sought the assistance of many international envoys, from the veteran diplomat Kofi Annan to Lakhdar Brahimi, de Mistura, and Geir Pedersen, and all of them passed through the Syrian crisis without any horizon for a solution, but rather more complexity and ambiguity in the course of this country. ancient.
Day after day, Syria has turned into an arena of regional and international interventions, and it has also become a burden on the countries of the region and the neighborhood on the security and economic levels. Indeed, many European countries have become upset with the Syrian case as a result of the economic costs on these countries, from receiving refugees to supporting humanitarian and international organizations inside Syria. Indeed, the crisis turned into a scarecrow at the international level, and it was necessary to have political courage to be frank and deal realistically with the Syrian situation, away from deceptive and resonant diplomatic phrases.
With the outbreak of the Ukrainian-Russian crisis and the international tensions over the war, European countries, the United States of America and Russia became involved in a conflict that seemed to take a long time in the realm of international conflicts, and all Middle Eastern files turned into a “decoration” in the corridors of the United Nations and a boring narrative in the foreign ministries of Western countries. Among them, of course, is the Syrian crisis, which has become a repulsive crisis for Western countries.
Amid the futility of reaching a political solution, and in front of this international and regional scene of the Syrian situation and in the face of fears of a stalemate in Syria that would lead to a defect in the regional security system, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia advanced after a long stalemate in this file in order to move the Syrian file back to the first level, and indeed Within a few days, Saudi Arabia succeeded in restoring consideration of the Syrian file at the Arab and international levels. In one week, the visit of the Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Al-Miqdad to Jeddah, the visit of the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan to Damascus, and the meeting with President Bashar Al-Assad for the first time since the beginning of the crisis in The year 2011 is what is considered a qualitative political shift in Saudi thinking about this complex file.
This Saudi shift to the Syrian file has rethought many countries about political transformations at the regional level, and the possibility of achieving these transformations and turning them into positive gains aimed at creating security and stability in the region. Of course, Syria is at the heart of these transformations given its geographical location and its Arab and regional role as well. Here it is possible to read the Saudi transformations regarding the Syrian file with all pragmatism, along with concern for the interest of the Syrian people.
It is true that the Saudi diplomatic movement has been rapid in recent times regarding the situation in Syria, but it is not the result of the moment and does not stem from a specific moment, but rather the result of a political reading of what the Syrian crisis went through over the course of 6 years, at least after the Riyadh Conferences 1 and 2, as it did not None of the political or military tracks are advancing for a solution in Syria, and this is a sufficient reason for Saudi Arabia to be at the forefront of leading the solution.
Perhaps the recent Saudi statement after the meeting of the Saudi and Syrian foreign ministers is sufficient to explain the Saudi road map for a solution in Syria, as the Kingdom seeks to gather the Syrians once again on a political solution that turns the page on the past on foundations acceptable to all Syrians, and that Syria not turn into a country that is a corridor for political agendas, and a corridor The forces of terrorism and evil, and perhaps the points mentioned in the Saudi Foreign Ministry’s statement are the consensus of many Syrian opposition forces, even if they did not announce this, and they are not far from Resolution 2254.
The Saudi step towards Syria was necessary, and it came at a time when the Arab region is suffering from a state of chaos and state rift, and thus mending the Syrian rift would prevent further security rifts in the region. Therefore, the move towards Syria will have a deep Arab dimension at all levels. This approach to Syria will not be against the interests of the Syrian people, and this is the most important thing.
Okaz (Istanbul) @okaz_online
