Muna Ali, Baladi News
Member of the Syrian coalition and its former head "Hadi al-Bahra" said in an interview with al-Arabiyah news channel that there is a fear of dividing Syria under the policy of fait accompli, adding that neither the opponent coalition nor the Syrian political bodies participated in Astana negotiations that resulted in the de-escalation agreement, pointing out that the agreement wasn't associated with a political operation that leads to a political solution, as Syria is threatened with division over time through imposing the policy of fait accompli.
The concerns of al-Bahra came after the regime and its Russian ally began setting sand barriers and barbed wires, 20 kilometers long and 6 meters high, in areas north-west of Hama, the thing that was described by politicians and inhabitants as the launch of a real division operation.
In the same context, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that experts from Russia, Turkey and Iran are getting ready to demarcate the borders for de-escalation regions in Syria and that crossings are supposed to be built in order to prevent the entry of "terrorists".
Syrian writer and journalist "Ghazi Dahman" believes that de-escalation agreement is paving the way for dividing the country and it's a tactic by Russia to put its choices in order and though if the political solution didn't suit the Russians, the agreement will guarantee them controlling Syria along with giving them the power to form the new Syrian political regime, and so Russia will divide the country into regions under its political control and others under its fires (de-escalation regions), which are going to be besieged from all sides and their only choice will be resorting to Russia.
Ghazi went on saying that there might be a moment when division will be better than the state of besiegement which is going to be legal and accepted by the International community in case it approved such an agreement.
The journalist explained that Russia doesn't want to consume its powers in the conflict with America in Syria and that's why it may resort to impose the division or threaten of it, but in case things didn't go well and its political visions were not included in the solution, it may freeze the conflict which is much worse than division.