​​​​​​​During forum, recommendations made against demographic change in Syria

 Al-Farabi Center for Studies, Consultations and Training organized a symposium at the Egyptian Cultural Forum in the capital, Cairo, entitled “Demographic Change in Syria and the Unity of the National State: Dimensions, Repercussions, and Ways of Confrontation.”

 The official spokesman for the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Counselor Jamal Rushdi, participated in the symposium, along with the President of the Executive Board of the Syrian Democratic Council, Ilham Ahmed, the head of the Al-Farabi Center, Dr. Medhat Hammad, and the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, in addition to ambassadors, former diplomats, and retired doctors.  In addition to heads of research and human rights institutions, university doctors, and journalists.

 The participants in the symposium concluded that they agreed on /6/ recommendations as an action map to confront the processes of demographic change in Syria.

 First: The call for launching a Syrian-Syrian dialogue under the umbrella of the League of Arab States.

Second: Emphasizing the importance of restoring the Arab role in the Syrian cause as supportive of the unity of the Syrian national state.

 Third: The importance of concerted Syrian and Arab efforts to confront attempts to change the Syrian demographic reality.

 Fourth: The call to emphasize the stability of the principle of the Syrian national state, with the importance of preserving the privacy of religious and ethnic beliefs, and the right to political representation for all in accordance with the principle of equality and political justice.

 Fifth: Demanding the speedy departure of all foreign forces from Syrian territory.

 Sixth: Launching an international public relations campaign for the Syrian Democratic Council to address and confront false speeches that attempt to distort the image of the Council and link it abroad, and to develop a clear media discourse for the Council's orientations and Syrian national goals.

 The Arab League is on the side of the Syrian territorial integrity

 In the League of Arab States speech delivered by Counselor Jamal Rushdi, official spokesman for the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, it was stated that “the Syrian regime is largely responsible for the demographic change, as half of the Syrian population has become refugees, and the goal is not random as he described it, adding that the Iranian and Turkish regimes  practice a systematic policy to change the demographics, which will have an impact in the long term, even after the end of the war.

 The spokesman for the Secretary-General pointed out that "the Arab East consists of different sectarian and ethnic components, and this internal conflict that it witnessed throughout history is due to kinds of demographic changes, and that the change that is taking place in Syria is great, not for Syria, but for the Arab East."

He stressed that "the Syrian crisis is one of the biggest crises, and unfortunately it is a forgotten crisis, as the areas controlled by the regime suffer from a severe economic crisis, and this is something that bleeds the heart because it makes us doubt the ease of Syria's return to its situation."

 Dr. Mukhtar Ghobashi, Professor of International Law and Secretary-General of the Higher Academic Commission of the Al-Farabi Center, touched on the issue of demographic change in Syria from another perspective, saying that the issue is one of the deepest issues on the international and regional scale.

 The law professor confirmed that “four countries, along with local organizations, are practicing demographic change processes, and at the head of those who carry out this change for political reasons is Turkey, then Iran comes after it, and Russia may come after it, then ISIS or some organizations such as the Free Syrian Army.”

 Ghobashi explained that the causes of demographic change are known, especially among the references to the countries we mentioned, as the demographic change represents a change in the identity of some regions, pointing to the intervention of some international parties in this issue, and that the process of normalization in Syria is intended to do so.

 In an intervention via “Zoom”, the head of the executive body of the Syrian Democratic Council, Ilham Ahmed, referred to the political dimensions and repercussions of demographic change, and in turn revealed the parties involved in the process of demographic change.

 Elham Ahmed emphasized the unity of the Syrian lands and its inclusive identity, with the importance of preserving the privacy of religious and ethnic beliefs, and the right to political representation, for all according to the principle of equality and political justice.

 The representative of the Syrian Democratic Council in Egypt, Laila Moussa, addressed the issue of efforts to prevent the process of demographic change, and that the main goal is to preserve the Syrian geography and sovereignty, and that the structure of the highly centralized regimes has no problem with giving up the Syrian demographic.

 Moussa explained that the Syrians believe that the solution in Syria will be achieved through the Syrian dialogue, but they lack the ability to be independent, stressing that the solution to the Syrian crisis is a political solution, not a military one, in addition to believing in the role of the League of Arab States.

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