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December 19th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
nsnbc : The United Nations Security Council (UNSC), on Friday, unanimously adopted a resolution calling for resuming a peace process to end the nearly five-year-long war in Syria. The unanimous adoption of the resolution that calls for a Syrian-led process that builds on previous results from Geneva and Vienna comes as the geopolitical posturing and positioning of Council members underpins the geopolitical aspects of the war.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry commented that the resolution adopted on Friday would send a clear message to all concerned that the time to end the killing in Syria is now. The UNSC members have, however, failed to include the perhaps most divisive parts of the problem in Syria into the resolution.
The resolution does not specify the role of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in the peace process or in Syrian politics. The resolution does not address numerous UN member States’ military involvement in Syria in violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international law.
What the unanimously adopted resolution calls for is a call for formal peace talks and a ceasefire to begin in January 2016. All of the permanent UNSC members, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and China agreed on endorsing a diplomatic initiative that underscores a cohesive way forward toward peace in Syria. The resolution states, among others that the:
“only sustainable solution to the current crisis in Syria is through an inclusive and Syrian-led political process that meets the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people”.
The semantics used in the resolution betrays one of the main problems. That is, the use of the word “legitimate” rather than “legal”. The resolution builds largely on previous talks and protocols reached during prior talks in Geneva and Vienna. Previous talks and the Geneva communique call for an inclusive transitional governing body with full executive powers in Syria.
One of the main obstacles for the establishment of such an inclusive governing body was, and remains, that the Syrian government has no constitutional mandate to form any governing body or implement constitutional change without the involvement of all of the Syrian electorate. It is particularly here that the difference between the concepts “legitimate” and “legal” are problematic.
The UNSC resolution was adopted as the geopolitical positioning and posturing of permanent UNSC member States has increased, significantly, following Russia’s air campaign against Islamic State (ISIS / ISIL / Daesh) and other Jihadist brigades.
Analysts particularly point toward long-established US/NATO ambitions to carve out a Kurdish corridor that encompasses northern Iraq as well as northern Syria. Ironically, NATO member Turkey endorses the Iraqi part of this plan while opposing a Kurdish State or autonomous Kurdish construct in northern Syria. Moscow, for its part, is rather supportive of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the newly formed pro-Kurdish HDP.
A realistic assessment of the resolution points at the resumption of a “peace process” without a peace, very similar to the decades-long post-Oslo accords “Peace Process” between Palestine and Israel. The result of this “peace process” initiated in 1993 is that Palestine has been virtually dismantled.
CH/L – nsnbc 19.12.2015
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2015/12/19/security-council-calls-for-syrian-peace-talks-in-january/
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