Al-Jassem: Constitutional Committee not to present a solution to Syrian crisis

 On Friday, March 25, the so-called Syrian Constitutional Committee concluded its seventh round of talks between representatives of the Damascus government, the so-called "opposition" and civil society in Geneva.

  The so-called “Syrian Constitutional Committee” was formed in September 2019 to draft a “new constitution” for the country.

 The seventh round of talks between 15 representatives of the Damascus government, the so-called "opposition" and civil society ended without any agreement. The Constitutional Committee consists of 150 members, without any representative from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.

 On this issue, our agency met with the advisor of the joint presidency of the Executive Council in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Ahmed Al-Jassem, who said, "For the constitutional committee to be legitimate, it must represent all components of the Syrian people, but the representatives of more than 5 million Syrians in the areas of the Autonomous Administration were excluded."

 The advisor in the Executive Council considered, "This committee is illegal, was stillborn and will not result in any solutions, because it excluded a third of the Syrian geography, and in the law what is built on falsehood is false."

 He added that the formation of this committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for the country "is nothing but procrastination and taking advantage of time, and the best proof of this is that it reached the seventh round without any tangible progress."

 Ahmed Al-Jassem stressed, "We are Syrians by identity, geography and belonging, and we do not accept to be otherwise, and our exclusion from the meetings concerned with resolving the Syrian crisis does not mean that we are not Syrians and nullify our existence as a people and citizens. We live in an area that exceeds a third of the Syrian geography."

 Al-Jassem stressed, "We in the Autonomous Administration welcome the Syrian dialogue, with all parties that call for territorial integrity and the preservation of the rights of the Syrian people with all its components and sects."

 The advisor of the joint presidency of the Executive Council was surprised by the exclusion of millions of Syrians from drafting a constitution that would represent them as well, and the continuation of the meetings of the Constitutional Committee despite the exclusion of the Autonomous Administration and the presence of occupations on the territory of Syria, especially the presence of the Turkish occupation in the areas of northern Syria.

 A

 ANHA