Role of Kazakhstan in Peaceful World: Astana Peace Process for Syria.

For Syria, the "X hour" is approaching: the country is moving towards the post-conflict settlement stages and is preparing for the development of a new constitution. The UN hopes that the first meeting of the Syrian Constitutional Committee will be held before the end of this year. However, the United States demands to speed up the process and even set an ultimatum to the UN: to resolve the issue of forming a constitutional committee strictly till December 14. Otherwise, Washington is insisting on curtail both the Astana and Sochi settlement processes. What does it threaten with? For a start, briefly about what are both processes. The meeting in Sochi took place in January 30, 2018 and was a one-time action, which was rather declarative in order to emphasize Russia's involvement. The Syrian opposition, the Kurds, and the West boycotted the meeting in Sochi. Hence there were no results.

Therefore, the abolition of this format of negotiations has not cause much damage to the Syrian settlement process. What, of course, cannot be said about the Astana as a place for negotiations is that if this will be canceled for further dialogue among the parties, result will be challenging and the dream for peace remains distant.

The latest 11th Session of Astana Peace Process for resolving the seven year old Conflict was held in November this year. The meeting was dominated by the formation of the first Syrian Constitutional Committee, problems of the settlement of refugees, ceasefire in Syria's Idlib province, and the eliminate the threat of ISIS including terrorism are few of the subjects under discussion. According to few of the media reports, the Idlib is the only last remaining stronghold of the terrorist groups operating in the country. This is somewhat as good news as the successful evacuation of the Aleppo however it does mean the end of the conflict. As we observer the slow but steady movement of resolution of the conflict with continues peace process, here the role of Kazakhstan in the entire development in Syria and providing humanitarian assistance is considered as highly respectable and commendable. Astana has remained as forerunner to the peace and stability in the world.

Even during the presidency of the country at the United Nations Security Council from 2017-18 was itself a mark towards the achievements and the roles that Kazakhstan has played in the mediation and conflict resolution.

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