Under the slogan “Together for Diversity that Strengthens Our Unity… Through Our Partnership We Build Our Future,” the Conference on the Unity of Stance for the Components of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria convened this morning at the Center for Culture and Arts in the Ghweiran neighborhood of Al-Hasakah city.
The conference was attended by representatives of all the components of North and East Syria, as well as representatives of the Democratic Autonomous Administration, the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Syrian Democratic Council, and the Women’s Council in the region.
The event featured several speeches from various components — Syriac, Armenian, Kurdish, Yazidi, and Arab. His Eminence Archbishop Mor Maurice Amsih, Archbishop of the Jazira and Euphrates for the Syriac Orthodox Church, also delivered a speech during the conference.
In addition, messages from the Druze and Alawite communities were read out, along with the political document.
The conference concluded by opening the floor for interventions from attendees, followed by the reading of the final statement, which stated the following:
“The conference affirmed that the ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity in North and East Syria is a source of richness and strength, and stressed the need to entrench this diversity in political and administrative structures, and to guarantee the representation of all components in a way that strengthens societal unity. The model of the Autonomous Administration is a participatory experience that can be developed and advanced, and is a living example of democratic community governance.”
The statement emphasized that a sustainable solution passes through a democratic constitution that enshrines and strengthens ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, and lays the foundation for a decentralized state that ensures the genuine participation of all components in the political and administrative process, in line with freedom of belief, social justice, and good governance.
It further stressed that:
“Achieving national reconciliation requires launching a genuine process of transitional justice based on truth-seeking, accountability, reparations without discrimination, and guarantees of non-recurrence — creating the appropriate environment for the safe, dignified, and voluntary return of the displaced, and rejecting all forms of demographic change.”
