Ilham Ahmed: Our experience has been successful in preserving its achievements

In a private interview with North-Press from Washington, Ilham Ahmed, the executive president of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), has said that the SDC delegation’s tour in the United States focused on several axes, the most important of which was to engage the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Syrian political scene and shape the future of the new Syria, which was well understood by the U.S. officials. She added that “the exclusion of a key Syrian component from the constitutional committee, will not be in the interest of the Syrian people, while about  5 million Syrians live in the Autonomous Administration-held areas,  who have a stable experience.”

“The experience of Autonomous Administration is in a state of opposition to the Syrian central system, where it believes that the regime targets the SDF at this stage more than targeting any other opposition experience,” she said.

She pointed out that “the goal of the experience of north and eastern Syria is to shape a new Syrian future with redrafting  the Syrian constitution in a way that commensurate with the realization of the interests of the various Syrian components.”

Ahmed expressed readiness to communicate with all Syrian opposition components and coordinate with them, “as happened in several meetings and will happen in a number of upcoming meetings in Arab capitals.”

Moreover, she stressed that “the specificity of our experience and our focus on preserving the democratic aspect of the Autonomous Administration experience, has enabled us to deliver a successful experience to the international community, which has succeeded in maintaining its control over the Administration’s regions.”

Ahmed pointed out that Rojava’s proposal is “a geographical name rather than a political one. It’s a name of a region  which  includes components with legitimate rights, but the essence of the Autonomous Administration project, is based on achieving democracy for all Syrians with all their components of Kurds, Turkmen and other ones on the Syrian territories.

Furthermore, the executive president of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Ilham Ahmed, pointed out that one of the themes which was discussed in Washington and concerned the residents of north and eastern Syria and the international community, was the situation in IDPs camps, where challenges increase disastrously day by day, such as al-Hawl camp, with the inability to secure all the needs of the camp and the refusal of a number of countries to receive their detainee citizens, who left the areas controlled by the Islamic State group (IS).