A military solution to the Syrian civil war is an illusion, the United Nations special sent for the country says Geir Pedersen on Monday, urging for a political solution and talks.
Before of resumption of peace talks in Geneva next week, Pedersen appealed to all parties and key international actors to work with the UN to help propose a political solution to end the 11-year war.
“While the conflict in Syria enters its 12th year – marking another dark milestone – Syrians continue to suffer in deep ways, and the difficulties only get worse,” Pedersen said. in a statement welcoming new talks.
Last week, Pedersen office announced that talks involving the Constitutional Committee set after a UN Security Council resolution will resume in Geneva for five days from March 21.
“The way out of this dead end is for the parties to forge a political solution that can end the suffering of the syrian people restore the sovereignty of syria and allow syria people to determine their own future“, said Pedersen.
“My heartfelt appeal to the Syrian parties and to all key international the actors is work with United Nations effort in order at help advance this sharing goal.”
Dead end
He noted that there had been no change in the first lines for two years.
“We face a continuing stalemate, and at the same time we are witnessing growing humanitarian needs and socio-economic collapse,” Pedersen said.
He said the way out of the current the dead end is for the parties to forge a political solution that “can end the suffering of the syrian people restore the sovereignty of syria and allow syria people to determine their own future.”
He said that such a solution is feasible with political goodwill.
“I am happy that the Constitutional Committee is meeting again soon in Geneva, and I believe that we must move substantially forward on son mandate,” Pedersen said.
the last the talks, which involved both the regime and the opposition, ended in Geneva on October 22, 2021, and Pedersen then described them as a “disappointment.”
He told the UN Security Council in new York on February 25: “Everything of a number of from points lightning could trigger a larger conflagration. We continue to see mutual bombings, skirmishes, IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and security incidents on the front lines in northwest, northeast, and southwest.”
Syria is locked down in a brutal civil war since early 2011, when Bashar al-Assad’s regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
Since, more over 250,000 people were killed and more more than 10 millions of displaced people, according to the UN
11 years old of war
Eleven years have passed since the popular uprising of March 15 in 2011, when a group of primary school students in southern Syria city of Daraa wrote “Then it’s up to you, Doctor!” on their school building wallreferring to Assad.
The Assad regime, which declared civilians who wanted a change of power through peaceful demonstrations as “terrorists”, mobilized its soldiers and security forces to quell protests. This move lead to peace public protests escalating into civil war.
With the participation of Russia in the war in September 2015, the course of the civil war has turned in to favor of the regime that has regained control of more of the lands by intense attacks and blockades.
On January 23 and 24, 2017, the first The Astana meeting was held under the initiative of Russia and Turkey. Three years later, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and son Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed on a ceasefirefire in Idlib, with Turkey and Russia as guarantor countries observing the cessation-fire for all military Shares.
