MSDToday, on Wednesday, December 22nd, the Syrian Democratic Council, during a meeting that was organized with activists, politicians and intellectuals in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, clarified its position on current issues related to the future of the region and Syria in general, and explained its strategy which is in line with international resolutions for resolving the Syrian crisis.
The Spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Council, Amjad Othman, began his speech during the dialogue symposium with a sequential review of the events of the Syrian crisis and how the Syrian issue was internationalized through international conferences and approaches that were proposed to solve it without results.
The SDC spokesman indicated that a number of factors made the authority in Damascus believe that it was victorious and was not interested in the extent of the tragedy it brought to the Syrian people, and that it saw the military option as the best solution.
Othman pointed out that the reality is different from the “psychological state” experienced by the Damascus authority and its sense of victory. “The reality is completely different. There are serious challenges in which no party can win without the completion of the political solution and the achievement of the democratic change.” Othman said.
Regarding the negotiation initiatives with the authority in Damascus, the spokesman said that “if a dialogue or a negotiation does not achieve the desired democratic change, we will not be a part of it. We support the cause of the Syrian people and an achievement of their aspirations.”
He stressed that the first one responsible for the state of affairs in the country is the central tyrannical regime by its rejection to accept solutions or options other than the military option, which has proved its failure.
The spokesman added that the reconciliations presented in the region are maneuvering and circumvention of political solutions that must be confronted, and the experience of reconciliations in Daraa has proved its failure and that cannot be a substitute solution for the serious dialogue.
He noted that the consensus of the active and interfering countries regarding the Syrian file, especially the United States of America and Russia, is an important factor for resolving the Syrian crisis, pointing to the continued communication of “SDC” with Washington and Moscow in order to make a unified vision that ends the Syrian conflict.
On the path of unifying the visions of the democratic opposition, the SDC spokesperson said that the SDC members have passed important steps in this regard, and the consultative meeting in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, was one of the results of the consultations of the Syrian Democratic Council with Syrian forces and personages after a group of forums and workshops inside and outside the country, indicating that the weakness and fragmentation of the opposition made the other party a stronger position.
Othman added that SDC had previously concluded with Syrian opposition forces memoranda of understanding and common meetings, in which in August 2020, a memorandum of understanding was signed with the People’s Will Party, and there were meetings and a dialogue with the National Coordination Body.
“The SDC project represents the national initiative that works for a comprehensive solution for the Syrian crisis through bypassing all private issues and working to establish a model for the future Syria.” He continued.
Othman pointed to the idea of a decentralized regime is not made by the people of North and East of Syria, although they adopt this proposition. In 1950, the Syrian constitution contained articles that achieved political and economic decentralization and there were popular demands at that time for a proposition which serves the country’s progress and development.
The participants who were political and cultural elites from Deir ez-Zor participated in the symposium with their valuable views and suggestions, and the SDC held a series of its dialogue seminars in the regions of northern and eastern Syria, and the Deir ez-Zor seminar is the seventh one after the seminars of Al-Jazeera, Raqqa, Manbij and Kobani.
