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The idea of a “General National Conference” is gaining ever-greater consensus within various Syrian circles. This is both natural and expected given Syrians’ commitment to their country, its unity, and its civil peace. This comes amid escalating threats, sectarian incitement, and the horrific bloody events in various parts of the country, most recently in the Syrian province of Sweida. This has yet to reach a clear or stable conclusion and remains dangerous and susceptible to slipping into even greater danger.

On Friday, March 14, the People’s Will Party issued a statement clarifying its position on the Constitutional Declaration. The essence of this position is that the Declaration “was disappointing and below what is needed to be a viable basis for a smooth transition that protects the unity of the country and its people and closes the door to all forms of foreign interference”.

Yesterday, Thursday, March 13, 2025, the President of the [Syrian] Republic for the Transitional Period, Ahmad al-Shara'a, signed the 53-article "Constitutional Declaration," which was produced by a committee appointed by Mr. al-Shara'a, in the same manner as the Interim Government and the Preparatory Committee for the National Dialogue Conference were appointed. This was done without achieving broad and genuine representation at the general political and social levels in Syria.  

The Syrian popular movement in its second phase, after having completed in its first phase overthrowing the fugitive authority, faces several major tasks. Most notably of these is restoring the unity of the country and the unity of the Syrian people, preserving the dignity of the country and its sovereignty over its territory, in parallel with maintaining security and civil peace and working to build a national army, solely with which weapons are confined.

A letter to Mr. Gire Pedersen

Over the past few days, the country has witnessed a new wave of military operations that included a number of Syrian provinces in northern Syria, all the way to Hama. This is likely to expand and spread, with the potential for more losses, suffering, and Syrian bloodshed, as well as renewed risks to the country’s unity and existence.

Within the framework of joint work to push towards a political solution, and following a series of meetings, the Moscow and Cairo Platforms for the Syrian Opposition reached a set of agreements and understandings, the fundamental ones of which are expressed in this memorandum of understanding (MOU), and are as follows:

For years since 2011, the regime and opposition extremists have been in agreement to reject dialogue, they have now been in agreement for several years to call for dialogue. However, the most important question is: what dialogue, how, about what, and for what?

The European policy, said to be “new”, towards Syria is summed up in one clear sentence that came in the non-paper that eight European countries sent mid last month to the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The aforementioned sentence is: “Today, a political solution in line with UN resolution 2254 seems out of reach”.

On the outside, things appear to be stagnant in Syria in the political sense. Whether it is talking about the brakes applied against the progress of the Syrian-Turkish settlement, or about the People’s Assembly elections that passed as if they had not happened, or about the West’s formal continuation of its same policies, and other indicators that are relied upon to say that nothing has changed and nothing will change anytime soon.