MSDA range of Syrian powers, actors and figures met in the city of Raqqa on Friday to discuss resolutions for the Syrian crisis and discuss the concepts of inclusive national identity and decentralization.
In turn, a delegation of the Syrian Democratic Council participated with more than fifty figures representing political parties and movements from various Syrian regions and political affiliations. Also, the preparatory committee of the conference of Democratic Powers and Figures was invited to the forum.
At the beginning of the forum, the preparatory committee made a speech in which it explained its efforts to hold such meetings at home and abroad. “What we are putting forward today is an initiative towards unifying the Syrian national visions and positions,” a member of the preparatory committee, Janda Muhammed said.
She added that efforts are not the result of our work today, but the result of accumulations over two years of many consultative meetings with various Syrian national democratic powers and figures that have political, independent, academic backgrounds, in addition to our meetings with various civil society powers at home and abroad.
Muhammed pointed out that the Syrian crisis has left eleven years of instability, without any serious resolutions, and attributed this to the state of internal fragmentation on the one hand, and external interventions with all their agendas against the interests and aspirations of the Syrian people on the other hand, according to the preparatory committee.
”A group of reasons have turned Syria into an arena of regional and international conflicts, and the most important reasons are the authoritarian mentality and denial of the authority of Damascus, the fragmentation of the opposition and the dependence of some of them on foreign powers, its struggle for power, as well as its lack of an alternative national project, in addition to other reasons that complicated the Syrian crisis” Janda Muhammed said.
The forum is scheduled to last for two days, during which it will address the concepts of an inclusive national identity and decentralization as a regime of governance for the future Syria.
The preparatory committee; which emerged after a group of forums and dialogue workshops at home and abroad, has held three consultative meetings over the past two years in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, in addition to the Aleppo Consultative Forum, which was held last August.
