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Syrian Kurdish National Council's
opposition package will not contain decentralization
14.4.2012 |
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April 14, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The Kurdish National
Council of Syria (KNCS) is drafting a new package
for the era following Bashar al-Assad's rule but it
will not contain any provisions about a
decentralization policy, as was demanded in the
first congress of the council.
KNCS member Mustafa Ismael said the draft focuses on
toppling Assad's regime, working to build a new
Syria, recognizing the Kurdish people in the
constitution and solving their issue justly and
according to international conventions and
agreements. The draft also concerns abolishing all
of the discriminatory policies against Kurds.
"The political package does not recommend the policy
of decentralization for the future Syrian
administration, [because] the [rest of the]
opposition [council] interpreted it as a demand for
federalism and a threat against Syria's unity,"
Ismael said.
At the same time the package does not include any
provisions about federalism, which was not even
brought up in the communiqué of the first
conference.
By virtue of the recommendations of the previous
meeting of the Kurdish National Council of Syria
earlier this month, the organizational and political
committees met to discuss, study and lay out the new
strategies for the next meeting of the council in
the coming few days, said KNCS member Mustafa Ismael.
Ismael added that the draft which the committees
prepared will be finalized in the coming meeting.
The meeting will also see members discuss plans to
modify or annul some of demands called for at the
first KNCS conference "particularly because those
points created the major obstacle in the way for
making any deals with the [rest of the] opposition
and especially the Syrian National Council,"
explained Ismael.
The KNCS was formed in October last year, seven
months after public protests broke out against
Assad's regime. The council includes Kurdish
political parties,www.ekurd.net
youth organizations and independents.
Kurds constitute the second major ethnic group in
Syria, amounting to more than three million
individuals, according to unofficial figures. They
accuse Damascus of exercising discriminatory
policies against Kurds.
By Shirin Hizar
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