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2nd Syrian Kurdish oppositional coalition
founded in Western Kurdistan
8.1.2012
By Kurdwatch |
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January 8, 2012
QAMISHLI, Syrian Kurdistan (Western
Kurdistan), — On December 22, 2011, several Kurdish
parties founded the Union of Kurdish Democratic
Forces in Syria. The Kurdish Future Movement in
Syria, Abdurrahman Aluji´s Kurdish Democratic Party
— Syria and the Kurdistan Union Party in Syria
belong to this new coalition.
The new coalition has formulated the following
positions:
1. The fall of the regime and all of its symbols and
structures, the continuation of the peaceful
revolution in all parts of Syria, the continuation
of the same in the Kurdish regions and the
intensification of calls for strikes and civil
disobedience in all Kurdish regions;
2. Consolidation of the efforts of the rebelling
youth in the Kurdish regions, coordination among the
youth as well between the youth and other players in
the Syrian revolution;
3. In cooperation with all appropriate authorities,
the protection of civilians should be safeguarded,
all Arab and international efforts in this regard
should be supported and implementation by
international organizations should be assured as
quickly as possible;
4. Dialogue with all Kurdish political powers
outside of the coalition, coordination of the
efforts to ensure the unity of the Kurds;
5. Communication with all players in the Syrian
opposition, both inside the country and abroad, as
well as with the Syrian National Council and
Syrian-patriotic figures in particular, in order to
make cooperation, understanding, and joint action
possible and thus to achieve together the goals of
the revolution;
6. The coalition states that those people who have
opposed the authoritarian regime and sacrificed
themselves in the fight against it as well as those
who were tortured receive legitimacy;
7. The coalition makes clear that the patriotic
decisions of the Syrian Kurds will be made
independently and that at the same time the national
Kurdish interests must be protected;
8. The introduction of a parliamentary system and a
democratizing of daily life on the basis of
diversity, the peaceful transfer of power, the rule
of law, the division of powers and the protection of
the rights and particular characteristics of all
parts of Syrian society;
9. Constitutional recognition that Syria is a civil
state with various religions, religious
denominations, and ethnicities (Arabs, Kurds,
Chaldeans, Assyrians, Arameans, Armenians, Chechens,
Circassians, Turkmen, and Yazidi) so that the
political and cultural rights of all are guaranteed;
10. Constitutional recognition of the national
rights of the Kurdish people in Syria within the
framework of a democratic and patriotic consensus
and on the basis of state equality of the Kurds as a
main ethnicity alongside an Arab ethnicity;
recognition that the Kurdish question is a question
of a people that lives of its own free will on its
historic territory. The Kurdish question must be
solved democratically and justly,www.ekurd.net
all laws, decrees, and racist projects against the
Kurdish people, as, for example, the Arab Belt, the
special census, and the policies of Arabization and
the neglect of the Kurdish regions as well as their
negative consequences must be repealed, and the
victims must be compensated for;
11. The rights of all citizens to free speech and
free assembly, the exercise of their personal
freedoms and [religious] rituals, and their
participation in all public affairs must be
guaranteed; furthermore the human dignity of all
citizens on the basis of the consolidation of civic
right must be respected;
12. The rejection of violence and the encouragement
of forgiveness, reconciliation, and tolerance among
all citizens, as well as respect for all
international treaties and conventions, as well as
for human rights;
13. Elimination of all forms of totalitarian,
authoritarian, and exclusionary thoughts and
practices, regardless of pretense; Nonviolence in
the context of political activities and the
guarantee of transparency in political
relationships; neutralization of the military and
the security authorities, so that they are neither
politically active nor can they stand for election
or be able to vote;
14. The decentralization of the state in accordance
with the demands of progress and regional
development; the assurance of equal opportunities
and the just division of national wealth, as well as
an increase in the standards of living for all
Syrian citizens; the creation of new administrative
divisions that take the interests of the citizens of
each region into account; determination of a portion
of the income of the individual provinces to be used
for infrastructure and development projects in these
provinces;
15. The new Syrian state guarantees women all of
their rights, including the right to actively
participate in political life, as well as in all
other areas; young people and their issues must
receive serious attention and their inclusion in
civil, cultural, social, economic, and political
areas of society must also be guaranteed;
16. The new Syrian state is a civilized, civil state
and a true factor of stability in the Arab,
regional, and international context;
17. The future of the occupied Syrian regions must
be determined on the basis of the resolutions of the
United Nations Security Council and with
international legitimacy;
18. In the transition period following the fall of
the regime the Union of Kurdish Democratic Forces in
Syria, together with the Syrian National Council,
will ensure the security in the Kurdish regions
through the establishment of local councils; the
Union of Kurdish Democratic Forces in Syria and the
Syrian National Council will take part in the
transitional government in order to administer the
affairs of the country;
19. The Union calls for a patriotic conference under
the slogan of democratic change, in order to develop
a program for the period of transition together with
all representatives of Syrian society who did not
commit crimes against the people and did not enrich
themselves at the expense of the state;
20. The transitional government will organize free
elections for a founding assembly under
international supervision within a period of no more
than one year; the founding assembly will have the
task of developing a new constitution, which will be
presented to the people for a vote in a general
referendum;
21. According to the new constitution, parliamentary
elections should take place within a period of six
months and no longer.
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