SDC holds seminar for intellectuals in Syria’s Qamishli
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, the president of the Executive Board of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), Ilham Ahmad, described Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s speech on decentralization as “positive”, because it was uttered by the President of the Republic.
Ahmad’s speech came during a seminar organized by the SDC, in the presence of intellectuals and representatives of political parties and blocs, in the city of Qamishli, northeastern Syria.
The seminar discussed the role of the intellectuals in accelerating the process of a political solution to the war that has been going on in Syria for a decade.
“We have said it over and over again, Syria will not go back to before 2011, and today he himself (Assad) admits that,” she added.
Ahmad criticized the local administration law of the Syrian government, “because it is devoid of democracy, and relies on appointments from the top of the pyramid.”
She indicated that they called on officials from the US and Russia to find a solution to the war in Syria.
On August 14, al-Assad delivered a speech at the swearing-in meeting for the new Syrian government, in which he said that “decentralization achieves balanced development among the various Syrian regions.”
Observers considered the Syrian president’s talk about decentralization a “change in the tone of the ruling regime in Syria”, ten years after the start of protests against his central rule.