Nasser Kandil wrote: De Mistura does not know

  • The US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are preparing themselves to meet the UN Envoy Steffan De Mistura in the next week in Geneva to let him know about their understanding and what he has to do.
  • De Mistura does not know yet if he will call for a new round of Geneva talks or not.
  • The reticence regarding the American Russian understanding is related to American desire not to cause a shock to the Saudis regarding the political aspect of the understanding.
  • The security and the military dimensions have become clear, and their content is cooperation in the war on Al Nusra by the American side, in exchange of land tasks which the Syrian army will undertake, since the groups that are supported by Washington were unable to perform in the war on ISIS.
  • The Saudis and their Syrian groups know that this will not be settled without American acceptance by resolving the Army of Islam, Ahrar Al Sham, and the group of Zanki as terrorist groups with Al Nusra and ISIS.
  • The Saudis and their groups know that the Syrian country and its allies will interact with the Russian American understanding that ensures the American clearness that the political process will be settled under the ceiling of the Syrian constitution, especially the powers of the Syrian presidency, the preparation for the elections after the end of the war, and putting a new constitution.
  • Finally, De Mistura will disclose.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,

 

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