The Syrian temporary government brings together people from many religions and sects in the country for a two -day national dialogue that began on Monday.
What is the national dialogue?
Ahmed al-Shara, a temporary president of the country, whose rebel coalition took control of Syria in early December, promised to hold a national dialogue to discuss the formation of a representative government.
His government set the deadline on March 1 to the start of the proceedings. The invitations for the event were sent on Sunday, February 2nd, hundreds of participants, including the leaders of the community, academics and religious leaders, just the day before the conference began.
Journalists, businessmen, activists, former detainees of Assad’s government and families of people who were killed or wounded in Syrian brutal, 13-year-old civil war were also invited.
What about the Kurds?
Mr. Al-Shara spoke about the need to unite a large fracture in Syria to build new Syria. Syria is a Sunni country of the Muslim majority, but has many religious and ethnic minorities, including Alawites, societies, Christians and Kurds.
But the attempts of unity have already come across the challenges.
Some Kurds, which make up about 10 percent of Syria’s population, are called into dialogue. But the Syrian democratic forces led by Kurd, a militia supported in the US, which controls most of Syria in the northeast, were not. Syria The Provisional Government has demanded that the militia disarm And join a unique national military force, as a condition of joining dialogue.
The Committee organizing the conference earlier said that the SDF does not represent all Syrian Kurds.
Turkey, A close ally of Rebel group This led to the overthrow of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, for years he tried to suppress the power of Syrian democratic forces, claiming that the militia was associated with the Kurdish separatist rebels within Turkey.
What will come out of the dialog?
Many Syrians are skeptical of what national dialogue can bring, especially in a deeply divided country where sectasing tension is prolio in the murder of revenge.
Syrians are also cautious in promises of the inclusivity coming from the Government led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Islamist group that gave government and ministerial positions with its own loyalists. This has not yet included in the Government and other rebel groups that helped to overthrow Mr. Assad.
Conference organizers said there is no direct connection between the formation of a new Syrian government and a conference on dialogue, although they occur at the same time.
The conference participants will issue recommendations for the new Government as well as to write a new constitution and law. But these recommendations do not seem to be attached.
“Recommendations from national dialogue will not be mere tips and formalities, but it will be the basis for a temporary constitutional declaration, economic identity and plan of institutional reforms,” said Hassan Al-Dughaim, a Committee spokesman.
