Facilitator:
The session was moderated by Dr. Abeer Hassaf.
Participants:
19 women and men, representatives of clan, civil society leaders, leaders of political parties in North and East Syria, participated in the session, according to the following percentages:
2 Female - 17 Male
- Faya Ardesh - Co-chair of the Syriac Union Party
- George Yousef - Co-chair of the Syriac Union Party
- Falak Khalaf - Official of the Women's Union
- Salem Suleiman - Yazidi activist
- Hussain Al-Hassan - Spokesman for the Democratic Union Party.
- Talal Qafour - Secretary of the Democratic Peace Party
- Hani Ramadan - Member of Democratic Peace Party
- Abdul Rahman Al-Hiwar - Administrator in the Youth Office of the Arab National Authority
- Ismail Remo - Member of Kurdistan Democratic Party
- Issa Danho - Member of Democratic Union Party
- Gorgin Issa - Kurdish Democratic Unity Party
- Celeng Kano'o - Member of Roj Party
- Mohammad Shafiq Murad - Kurdish Democratic Unity Party
- Noureddin Shaker - Department of Peace Committee in Al-Jazeera Region
- Mohsen Al-Dulaimi - Director of the Media Office of Al-Sanadid Forces
- Talal Al-Asi - Head of the Conservative Party
- Civan Kilo - Member of the Fraternity Party
- Hassan Al-Hussein - Member of Fraternity Party
- Fassal Al-Hussein - National Coordination Body
The joint head of the representation of the Syrian Democratic Council in Washington and the head of the Syriac Party in Syria, Bassam Isac, also participated in the dialogue session via the "Zoom", and the member of the administrative body of the Yazidi Federation in Syria, Fawaz Ayo from Germany, also participated via the "Zoom".
National background of the participants:
Arabs: 5 - Kurds: 11 - Syriacs: 3
Religious background of the participants:
Christians: 3 - Muslims: 14 - Yazidis: 2
Main topics of the session:
- Geneva conferences on solving the Syrian crisis.
- The importance of the political process in Geneva.
- Security Council Resolution 2254.
- The Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva.
- The role of the constitution in meeting the requirements of civil society, politicians, and clans in the region.
The facilitator began her talk about the nine Geneva conferences and their results in detail, then the door was opened for discussion, consultations and questions by the participants and participants, and all questions were answered by the facilitator of the session.
In the second axis, the member of the Constitutional Committee, Dr. Dorson Oskan, joined the session via the “Zoom” and talked about the establishment of the Constitutional Committee and the drawbacks on the representation of the Committee, in addition to talking about the main reasons for the failure of the Constitutional Committee in its work so far.
Then the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council representation in Washington and the head of the Syriac Party in Syria, Mr. Bassam Isac joined the session via the Zoom.
Isac spoke about the importance of separating religion from the state, and preserving and preserving the cultures present in Syria.
Isac pointed to the importance of the right to learn in the mother tongue, and focused on the negative interference of external parties that control the fate of the Syrian people, and who reject the participation of all Syrians in the constitutional committee to draft their constitution.
Isac added that Turkey, the Syrian regime and Iran reject the participation of representatives from Northeastern Syria represented by the Autonomous Administration with its political and military sides.
Isac stressed that those who should participate in drafting the constitution are the people of the Syrian interior who know very well the extent of the suffering experienced by the people of religions and components in Syria.
For her part, the session facilitator, Dr. Abeer Hassaf, spoke about the establishment and composition of the Constitutional Committee and the drawbacks of representing the Committee, in addition to talking about the main reasons for the failure of the Constitutional Committee in its work so far.
Session results:
At the conclusion of the dialogue session, the attendees agreed on a set of recommendations and proposals to be submitted to the Syrian Constitutional Committee, which included:
- The constitution should guarantee the rights of all components and religions, with the participation of all Syrians.
- The state is the representative of society.
- Religious, national, racial, ethnic and cultural pluralism and protection of the rights of all.
- Preserving and defending women's rights.
- Human life is protected according to international law.
- Writing a new modern constitution that corresponds to the current stage, and the liberation of the occupied Syrian regions as an essential item.
- Recognition of religions and separation of religion from the state.
- Democratic self-management is the best form for the current stage in Syria.
- The system of government is decentralized, democratic, secular.
- Existence of supra-constitutional principles.
- Transitional Justice.
- Ensuring citizenship rights for all Syrian components.
- Remove all racist provisions from previous constitutions.
- The expulsion of all foreign forces occupying Syrian lands.
- Effective participation in political, social, economic and military administration without racial, religious, sectarian or sexual discrimination.
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