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Over the past weeks, the noise of sectarian rhetoric—both in its “peaceful” and violent forms—has grown louder. This has been accompanied by an intensified division of Syrians into opposing and polarized groups, through demonstrations and marches, repeating the miserable scene the country lived through during the Assad era. All this has unfolded in parallel with increasing foreign interventions and attacks on Syria—mainly, the “Israeli” assaults, the latest of which occurred in Beit Jinn in Damascus Countryside, where a group of young men confronted Zionist aggression, reaffirming that “Israeli” arrogance and brutality will not deter Syrians from defending their land and dignity, and that the Syrian people’s choice—first and foremost—is to resist the occupier, regardless of the needs or illusions of regimes.

The UN Security Council’s presidential statement on August 10 – along with a series of diplomatic statements by member states – brought back UNSC Resolution 2254 to the spotlight as the roadmap for a political solution in Syria.

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?