The interim government of Syria brings together people from many religions and sects of the country for a two -day national dialogue that started on Monday.
What is national dialogue?
Ahmed Al-Shara, the acting president of the country, whose rebellious coalition took control of Syria in early December, promised to hold a national dialogue to discuss the formation of a representative government.
His government has set a deadline for March to start the process. The invitations of the event were sent on Sunday, February 23 to a hundred participants, including community leaders, academics and religious leaders, one day before the conference.
Journalists, businessmen, activists, former prisoners of the government of Assad and families of people who were killed or injured in Syria were killed or injured in a sudden and brutal 13 -year -old civil war.
What about the Kurds?
Mr. Al-Shara spoke of the need to unite the many fractual populations of Syria to build a new Syria. Syria is a country of Sunni Muslim majority but has many religious and ethnic minorities, including Alawites, Druses, Christians and Kurds.
But unity attempts have already encountered challenges.
Some Kurds, which represent around 10% of the Syrian population, have been invited to dialogue. But the Syrian democratic forces led by the Kurds, a militia supported by the United States which controls a large part of northeast of Syria, was not. Interim government of Syria demanded that the Disarm militia And join a unified national military force, as a condition of joining dialogue.
The Committee organizing the conference previously declared that the homeless does not represent all the Syrian Kurds.
Turkey, A close ally of The rebel group This has led the reversal of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, has for years the power of the Syrian democratic forces, arguing that the militia is linked to the Kurdish separatist insurgents within Turkey.
What will come out of the dialogue?
Many Syrians are skeptical of what national dialogue can bring, in particular in a deeply divided country where sectarian tensions spread in murders of revenge.
Syrians also be wary of promises of inclusiveness from a government led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, an Islamist group which has given government and ministerial positions to its own loyalists. He has not yet included in the government of other rebel groups which have helped to oust Mr. Assad.
The conference organizers said there was no direct link between the training of the new Syrian government and the Dialogs Conference, although they occur at the same time.
Participants in the conference will publish recommendations for the new government, as well as for the drafting of a new constitution and laws. But these recommendations seem unrelated.
“The recommendations of the national dialogue will not be simple advice and formalities, but it will be the basis of the provisional constitutional declaration, the economic identity and the institutional reform plan,” said Hassan al-Dughaim, spokesperson for committee.
