Statement from the Change and Liberation Front (The Moscow Platform for the Syrian Opposition)

There is no doubt that it is necessary as soon as possible to establish a state of governance that regulates matters in the country and protects state property and institutions and the lives and properties of the people. This can be achieved in several ways, including the current government continuing to assume its duties as a technocrat, in parallel with engaging in a broad national dialogue to secure a real and smooth transitional phase that guarantees the real participation of the Syrian people and ensures that they reach, at the end of this phase, a new constitution and free and fair elections in which they determine their own destiny.

Monopolizing the decision, starting from the mentality of the “Revolutionary Command Council” and the mentality of the de facto authority, and bypassing the legal framework of the transition process, including UNSC Resolution 2254 and the current Syrian constitution, which provides within its articles a legal form that facilitates the transition process, is all likely to greatly harm all the goals for which the Syrian people have struggled for many years. The Syrian people do not want, under any circumstances, to move from the rule of one individual to another.

We, in the Change and Liberation Front, while emphasizing the necessity of keeping matters on the ground under control, preserving state institutions and properties, and preserving the rights and dignity of the people, we stress that “security and safety” is only part of the Syrians’ dreams of a new Syria, in which, alongside security and safety, freedom, democracy, and social justice prevail. The path to this is to fulfill the sacrifices of the Syrian people by starting with them as the source of authority, and through a broad dialogue whose roadmap is UNSC Resolution 2254.

The Change and Liberation Front

Damascus, Syria

9 December 2024