UN Security Council calls for “inclusive” and “Syrian-led” political process

The members of the Council, including Russia, historic support of Bashar al-Assad, and the United States, published a statement on Tuesday pleading for a “democratic” process in Syria.

What future for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime? The UN Security Council called on Tuesday, December 17, in a statement, for the political process to be “inclusive” et “led by the Syrians”. The members of the Council, including Russia, historic supporter of Assad, and the United States, “also stressed the need for Syria and its neighbors to each refrain from any action or interference that could undermine the security of the other”.

Ils “also reaffirm their strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria and call on all States to respect these principles”notes the text again. “This political process must respond to the legitimate aspirations of all Syrians, protect them all and allow them to peacefully, independently and democratically determine their own future”declared the UN Security Council, which sits in New York.

The “conflict is not over yet” in Syria, UN special envoy Geir Pedersen warned earlier in the day, citing clashes in the north of the country between pro-Kurdish forces and pro-Turkish groups. He also criticized the “more than 350 keystrokes” carried out since December 8 by Israel on military sites in the country and had called on Israel to “cease all settlement activity in the occupied Syrian Golan, which is illegal.”