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Syria aims to resolve Kurd issue and pass
law on parties
28.10.2005
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DAMASCUS, Oct 27
(AFP) - 20h22 - The ruling Baath party in underfire
Syria announced Thursday that measures would be
taken to grant Kurds nationality and adopt laws on
the formation of political parties.
The reforms on the home front come as Syria faces
mounting international pressure over its alleged
involvement in the murder of Lebanon's former
premier Rafiq Hariri.
The state news agency SANA said the decisions were
taken by the Baath central committee and in line
with the party's last congress in June as well as
instructions from President Bashar al-Assad.
The congress called for a "settlement of the problem
of the 1962 census organised in Hassakeh and to work
for the development of the region" in northern Syria
that is home to most of the country's 1.5 million
Kurds.
Kurdish officials have long protested that 225,000
Kurds were deprived of Syrian nationality as well as
their political and civil rights by the census in
which they were not registered.
The congress also called for a law to be adopted on
political parties and for changes to Syria's
election laws.
But parties would not be allowed on "ethnic,
religious or regional" bases, effectively ruling out
the Kurdish minority and the Muslim Brotherhood,
Syria's two main opposition groups, delegates at the
Baath congress said at the time.
AFP
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