Syria National dialoguea key moment in the political transition of the country after The fall of President Bashar Al-Assad In December, concluded on Tuesday.
The statement submitted at the end of a one -day conference, which was announced only on Sunday and gave many potential participants a little time to prepare, traced the way to create a new constitution and emphasize the importance of freedom of expression and man of law.
Among the participants was Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who had previously called Syrians “to stop the united and hand in hand to heal the wounds and wash the pain after a decade of dictatorship.”
Here are three key deviations from the conference:
What will the new Constitution of Syria be like?
Nature of the Syrian Revolution-a depletion of the decade of the long rule of the Al-Assad family and the Baath parties-the new constitution was expected.
The nature of this Constitution will reveal a lot about the future of Syria, especially since doubts remain among many for the intention of al-Sharaje, in the light of his former belonging to Al-Qaidi.
Al-Sharaa has quickly distanced herself from her past and has greatly avoided divided rhetoric.
In the dialogue, delegates were divided among the working groups, each focusing on another topic, including the Constitution, freedom, economics and civil society.
Houda Atassi, a member of the preparatory committee for the National Dialogue who read the statement at the end of the conference, said the Committee requested a “temporary constitutional declaration” and a “temporary legislative council” to help determine the future of the country.
The draft of the Constitution should achieve a “balance between power, establishing justice, freedom and equality, and the placement of the foundation for the state of law and institutions,” the complete statement said.
However, they did not give other details, and the discussions in the workshop were confidential, leaving the question of how the Constitution would take the form still long lasting, just a few days before it was previously proclaimed Deadline 1. March for the new transitional government to take over power.
Sovereignty and Israeli procedures
The final statement strongly rejected Israel’s actions in Syria from the overthrow of Al-Assad, calling them “the obvious violation of the sovereignty of the Syrian state.”
Israel transferred its forces to an interplay zone between Syria and Golan’s height, which Syrian territory itself illegally occupied by Israel. Israel also took control of areas outside the protective zone, including Mount Hermon, and performed repeated bombing attacks at military sites, including attacks overnight on Tuesday.
He called national dialogue to the “direct and unconditional withdrawal of” Israeli forces from Syria.
Rejected the threat of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahua would not allow Syrian military forces be present in southern Syria.
The conference has also opposed Israel with the attempts of Israel to indicate the tensions of sectasy tensions that it is ready to protect the Syrian minority community, many of which live in the south.
The Committee called for the “Unity of the Syrian Arab Republic” and “sovereignty over the entire territory, rejecting any form of fragmentation, division or creating any part of the homeland.”
The new Syrian government discussed with Syrian democratic forces (SDF), a group led by Kurd, which controls large parts of northeast Syria.
The SDF supported by the United States hesitated to surrender his weapons and expressed his desire for some autonomous rule in the control areas, which the Syrian government rejects.
Rights and freedoms
The final statement also requested “support of the role of women in all fields” and “rejecting all forms of discrimination based on race, religion or sect”.
He also rejected calls to ethnic or religious quotas in the Government-not that Al-Sharaa and other ministers previously indicated their opposition.
The place of women in the new government was unclear after statements of certain ministers. For example, Aisha Al-Dibs, Head of the Women’s Affairs Office in the Syrian Government of the Guardian, earlier in December she said that women would play a key role, but would not “transcend their nature of their day of God”, and would “know” their educational role in the family ‘
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani quickly withdrew against these statements, saying that the new authorities “believe in the active role of women in society.”
A statement of the final statement of dialogue required the protection of freedom, including freedom of thought and expression. This will mark a deep difference from the previous regime, under which the Syrians were regularly closed because of their speech.
The second question of the rights mentioned in the final statement was to achieve a transitional justice and holding “responsible for crimes”, while “rejected all forms of violence, encouragement and revenge.” Reports have emerged in recent weeks since the attacks against people associated with the Al-Assad regime in Homs and other parts of the country.
Is national dialogue composed too fast?
Confusion surrounded the national dialogue before it started, and many invitations were sent at the last minute.
Opposition politician George Sabra announced on social media that he had received a call on February 23, two days before the event, to be present in Damascus. Sabra lives in exile in France and said that he could not travel to Syria on time.
Critics say that the nature of the announcement of national dialogue is part of a wider pattern that took care of the Syrians to commit to democratic pluralism, with few details about the time launcher for the election and how free new Syria will be free.
There were doubts about talking about what critics marked the lack of representation in the preparatory committee.
But even with a sudden announcement of the date of national dialogue, about 600 Syrians attended conversations, and many believe that this is an important step on the way to the election and new Syria, without a decade of dictatorship.
