Kurdish Conference approves joint political vision for Democratic Syria

The conference "Unity of the Kurdish Rank and Position in Rojava Kurdistan," held in the city of Qamishlo, concluded today with the ratification of the "Joint Political Vision" document by the Kurdish parties. The document outlines the features of a comprehensive political solution to the Kurdish issue within the framework of Syrian national unity, under a decentralized parliamentary system.

The document, unanimously approved, affirms that Syria is a state composed of multiple nationalities, cultures, and religions, and that its constitution must guarantee the rights of all components — Arabs, Kurds, Syriacs, Assyrians, and others. It stresses the adoption of a decentralized parliamentary system based on justice, equality, separation of powers, and respect for human rights.

Regarding the Kurdish issue specifically, the document calls for the unification of Kurdish areas within an integrated political-administrative unit within a federal Syria, recognition of the Kurds as an indigenous people, and the guarantee of their political, cultural, administrative, and constitutional rights. This includes recognizing Kurdish as an official language alongside Arabic and establishing Kurdish educational and cultural institutions.

The document also demands the reversal of demographic changes in Kurdish areas, ensuring the safe return of displaced persons and refugees, restoring citizenship to those stripped of it by the 1962 census, and allocating a portion of the revenues from Kurdish regions' resources for their development.

The atmosphere at the conference and the unity around this document reflected the Kurdish parties’ desire to open a new page of joint political work in service of stability, justice, and democracy in Syria’s future.

The document includes the following provisions:

First – In the National Syrian Context:

1. Syria is a state of multiple nationalities, cultures, religions, and sects; its constitution must guarantee the rights of all Syrian components — Arabs, Kurds, Syriacs, Assyrians, Circassians, Turkmens, Alawites, Druze, Yazidis, and Christians — through supra-constitutional principles.

2. The state is committed to international conventions, treaties, human rights, and the principle of equal citizenship.

3. Syria’s system of government is a bicameral parliamentary system based on political pluralism, the peaceful transfer of power, and the separation of powers, and incorporates regional councils within a decentralized framework.

4. Syria shall adopt decentralization, ensuring the fair distribution of authority and wealth between the center and the regions.

5. The name, flag, and national anthem of the state should reflect the national and cultural diversity of Syrian society.

6. The state must be neutral towards religions and beliefs, ensuring freedom of religious practice and officially recognizing the Yazidi faith.

7. Adoption of a unified national identity that respects the particularities of its diverse components.

8. Guarantee of gender equality and representation of women in all institutions.

9. Protection of children's rights as declared by UN and Amnesty International agreements, providing care according to their regions’ conditions and taking into account their needs according to their nature and ages.

10. Reconsideration of current administrative divisions, taking into account population density and geographical area.

11. Recovery of looted Syrian antiquities and relics that were transferred inside and outside the country, returning them to their original locations.

12. Annulment and prevention of demographic change in Kurdish areas and throughout Syria, ensuring the safe return of displaced persons, including residents of Serekaniye, Girê Spî, and Afrin.

13. Formation of a constitutional assembly under international sponsorship, including representatives of all Syrian components, to draft democratic principles and form a government representing all Syrian spectrums with full executive powers.

14. The right to express and receive education in one’s mother tongue and to practice one's culture as a right for all communities.

15. Declaration of March 8th as a national Women's Day.

Second – In the Kurdish National Context:

1. Unification of Kurdish areas into an integrated political-administrative unit within a federal Syria.

2. Recognition of the national existence of the Kurdish people in Syria as an indigenous people, and guaranteeing their national rights constitutionally according to international conventions and treaties, including the right to freely and equally exercise their political, cultural, and administrative rights.

3. Honoring the sacrifices of the martyrs of the Syrian revolution, the Syrian Democratic Forces, security forces, prisoners who died in prisons, and martyrs of the resistance against ISIS, supporting their families and guaranteeing their rights through legal texts.

4. Recognizing youth as a vital force in society and ensuring their fair participation and representation in all state institutions.

5. Constitutional recognition of the Kurdish language as an official language alongside Arabic, and guaranteeing its teaching and learning.

6. Establishing centers and administrations concerned with the Kurdish language, historical heritage, and culture; opening Kurdish-language media centers, radio and TV channels; publishing books, magazines, and newspapers; and creating research and study centers

7. Ensuring Kurdish participation in the legislative, judicial, executive, and security institutions of the state.

8. Recognizing March 21st, Newroz, as an official national holiday, and March 12th as a day of remembrance for the Qamishli uprising.

9. Abolishing all exceptional policies, procedures, and laws applied against the Kurds — such as the Arab Belt project and Arabization campaigns in Kurdish areas — compensating those harmed by such discriminatory policies, restoring the previous status of these areas, and canceling secret and public agreements that undermine Syrian sovereignty and Kurdish existence.

10. Restoring Syrian nationality to Kurds stripped of it under the exceptional 1962 census and resolving the status of unregistered Kurds.

11. Developing the infrastructure of Kurdish areas and allocating a share of their resources for development and reconstruction, addressing the deliberate marginalization and neglect suffered in previous stages.

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ANHA