Arab Analyst:

Creation of Safe Zones in Syria Prelude to Disintegration Scenario

Rasa - Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, warned that Washington's decision to create safe zones in Syria is aimed at preparing the grounds for the disintegration of Syria.

News ID: 427049

Date: 02 February 2017 - 17:35

RNA - "This decision at a time when positive developments are taking place in Syria is a prelude to the disintegration of Syria," Atwan wrote in al-Rai al-Youm newspaper on Saturday.

He underlined that creation of safe zones in Syria now six years after the beginning of the Syrian crisis and as a large number of refugees are returning to the country after the Syrian army's advances in several regions of Aleppo is very strange.

Atwan said that creation of safe zones in Syria is not a new subject because the Turkish troops are trying to set up one of these regions in the city of al-Bab and Jarablous region in Aleppo countryside, but the new issue is an agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia over the creation of safe zones in Syria and Yemen.

The senior political analyst also said that Moscow has agreed to Damascus's conditions for studying US President Donald Trump's plan for the creation of safe zones as it is quite evident that Damascus will in no way agree with Trump's plan.

"Some believe that creation of safe zones in Syria is a prelude to the disintegration of that country to smaller emirates and self-ruled areas to be formed on the basis of different ethnic groups and sects," he added.

Analysts believe that the decisive battle in Aleppo and victory of the Syrian army and its allies against the terrorist groups can defuse the US plots to disintegrate Syria.

"Victory of the Syrian army in the strategic Aleppo battle means driving out the militants from the same path that they entered Syria, that is, the Turkish borders," Sham Times wrote in August.

"The Aleppo battle is 'decisive' because it not only creates dramatic changes in Syria's geographical ground, but also the results of such a victory can change the entire region," it added.

"The most important achievement of the current and future victories of the Syrian army in Aleppo is foiling plots to divide and disintegrate Syria, which is one of the most important goals pursued by the US and its allies in Syria," it said.

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