Syria: National Dialogue Frustrates Foreign Interference
Local Editor
The consultative meeting for Syrian Comprehensive National Dialogue continues activities on Monday in the presence of Syrian Vice-President Farouk al-Shara.
Monday discussions and interpositions will deal with the two draft laws of the parties and elections.
Al-Shara on Sunday said the tenth of July, which marks the beginning of national dialogue, is not like other days "as we hope it will announces the transformation of Syria into a pluralistic, democratic state where its citizens are equal and participate in the formation of their homeland's future."
The head of the National Dialogue Commission was speaking at the opening of the activities of the Consultative Meeting for Comprehensive National Dialogue, announced by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his latest speech at Damascus University, with the participation of different Syrian political, party independent, opposition, academic and youth activist figures.
Al-Shara announced a clear decision issued by the Syrian leadership "which stipulates for not placing any illegal obstacles in the way of the travel or return of any Syrian citizen to their homeland, noting that the interior Minister was informed of this decision to be enforced within a week from its date."
"Our society will not be able to achieve freedom and civil peace without a democratic, pluralistic political system...if the Syrian people succeed in moving peacefully towards democracy in cooperation among all their spectrums and without any foreign interference, they will succeed in ending this vicious circle of heated debate between the political solution and the security solution and isolating all those who don't care for the future of this homeland or for the change under its umbrella," stressed the Syrian Vice President.
For her part, Syrian Presidential Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban called on "opposition figures in Syria and abroad to refrain from relying on the support of foreign countries, noting that the examples of Iraq and Libya showed that relying on foreign countries destroys nations."
"It's the opposition's responsibility to participate and discuss the issues they demanded which concern all Syrian people," Shaaban clarified.
A number of the participants in the consultative meeting said the sessions were serious, honest and transparent.
Secretary-General of the Syrian Communist Party, Hanin Nimr, stressed that the National Dialogue Committee wanted all invited bodies to attend the meeting because there is a need for honest efforts in the building process.
"We insist on continuing the dialogue with everybody except those who are connected to the U.S.-"Israeli" project in the region," Nimr stressed.
"Most of the opposition's demands are on the table in order to be discussed... It is within the reform program which is an internal and important mechanism to the evolution of society."
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets in the coastal city of Latakia, raising the country's national flag and voicing support for reforms promised by the Syrian president.
The consultative meeting for Syrian Comprehensive National Dialogue continues activities on Monday in the presence of Syrian Vice-President Farouk al-Shara.
Monday discussions and interpositions will deal with the two draft laws of the parties and elections.
Al-Shara on Sunday said the tenth of July, which marks the beginning of national dialogue, is not like other days "as we hope it will announces the transformation of Syria into a pluralistic, democratic state where its citizens are equal and participate in the formation of their homeland's future."
The head of the National Dialogue Commission was speaking at the opening of the activities of the Consultative Meeting for Comprehensive National Dialogue, announced by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his latest speech at Damascus University, with the participation of different Syrian political, party independent, opposition, academic and youth activist figures.
Al-Shara announced a clear decision issued by the Syrian leadership "which stipulates for not placing any illegal obstacles in the way of the travel or return of any Syrian citizen to their homeland, noting that the interior Minister was informed of this decision to be enforced within a week from its date."
"Our society will not be able to achieve freedom and civil peace without a democratic, pluralistic political system...if the Syrian people succeed in moving peacefully towards democracy in cooperation among all their spectrums and without any foreign interference, they will succeed in ending this vicious circle of heated debate between the political solution and the security solution and isolating all those who don't care for the future of this homeland or for the change under its umbrella," stressed the Syrian Vice President.
For her part, Syrian Presidential Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban called on "opposition figures in Syria and abroad to refrain from relying on the support of foreign countries, noting that the examples of Iraq and Libya showed that relying on foreign countries destroys nations."
"It's the opposition's responsibility to participate and discuss the issues they demanded which concern all Syrian people," Shaaban clarified.
A number of the participants in the consultative meeting said the sessions were serious, honest and transparent.
Secretary-General of the Syrian Communist Party, Hanin Nimr, stressed that the National Dialogue Committee wanted all invited bodies to attend the meeting because there is a need for honest efforts in the building process.
"We insist on continuing the dialogue with everybody except those who are connected to the U.S.-"Israeli" project in the region," Nimr stressed.
"Most of the opposition's demands are on the table in order to be discussed... It is within the reform program which is an internal and important mechanism to the evolution of society."
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets in the coastal city of Latakia, raising the country's national flag and voicing support for reforms promised by the Syrian president.
The demonstrators carried what they called world's biggest national flag, 16 kilometers long and four meters wide, as a sign of support for the reform program initiated by President Bashar al-Assad and rejected foreign meddling in the country's internal affairs, Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Sunday.
After US Ambassador Robert Ford and French Ambassador Eric Chevallier paid an unauthorized visit to the restive city of Hama on Thursday without prior arrangements with Syrian officials, Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry summoned both ambassadors to inform them of its strong protest on their visits to Hama governorate without the ministry permission.
