TY  - JOUR
T1  - INTERNATIONAL PEACE INITIATIVES TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT IN SYRIA
AU  - Stankov, Vasil
PY  - 2019
DA  - September
DO  - 10.18769/ijasos.592319
JF  - IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
JO  - IJASOS
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-183X
SP  - 1026
EP  - 1031
VL  - 5
IS  - 14
LA  - en
AB  - Thearticle „International peace initiatives to resolve theconflict in Syria” reveals the international efforts to bring the conflict toan end and start a meaningful peace process that would reconcile theconflicting parties and engage them in a series of negotiations aiming toinitiate a National Dialogue, draft a mutually acceptable Constitution andprepare free and fair elections that would decide the issue of political powerin the country. The article outlines the peace endeavors of the United NationsSecurity Council, which adopted several resolutions to support the efforts toprevent the use of chemical weapons in Syria, authorize a mechanism to conducthumanitarian operations and establish cease-fire conditions. Furthermore, thearticle describes in detail the so called Geneva Peace Process as the framework,which started negotiating the establishment of transitional power architecturewith a transitional governing body possessing full executive powers, comprisedof representatives of the Syrian regime and the opposition. The article goes onto highlight the guidelines and principles of the political transition and theresults of the subsequent rounds of political talks, which didn’t yield aconclusive outcome because of the unfavorable conditions on the ground and theongoing offensive of the government forces against the opposition groups. Then,the article analyzes the peace efforts undertaken under the leadership of thecountries engaged to the greatest extent with the events on the ground –Russia, Turkey and Iran, and summarizes the results achieved at the meetingsheld in Astana in order to negotiate conditions for the cessation of militaryoperations and the launch of a peace dialogue between the regime and theopposition. The article emphasizes upon the meeting of 3-4 May 2017, when amemorandum was signed on creating four De-escalation Zones in the territoriescontrolled by the opposition, and underlines the importance of the nextmeeting, when decisions were made to establish a trilateral coordination centrefor combined operations in the zones and to convene a Syrian Congress of theNational Dialogue in January 2018 in Sochi. Finally, the article concludes thatthe political settlement requires a balance between the geopolitical objectivesof the outside factors involved and the power ambitions of the internal playersand argues that the outcome of the negotiations depends mainly on the situationon the ground.
KW  - conflict
KW  - Syria
KW  - negotiations
KW  - peace process
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