Syria rejects any Draft Constitution that includes 'Autonomous Communities'

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KURDS: Syria rejects any Draft Constitution that includes 'Autonomous Communities'

Basically saying 'not now, not right away' but 2 B decided by Syrian vote / All citizenry... not 'imposed' by virtue of 'proclamation'.

Syria rejects Russia’s suggestions on autonomous communities in Syria, including Kurds

The Syrian government has rejected Kurdish autonomy
to be included in a new draft constitution for the country being written by Russia.

Article 40 in the draft constitution called for decentralized “people’s societies”.

“The Kurdish cultural self-ruling systems and its organizations
use both the Arabic and Kurdish languages equally,” the draft reads.

The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), however
are refusing to budge that federalism can be the only solution.

The Syrian government has rejected local autonomy
or recognition of the Kurdish language on an equal level to Arabic.

The difficulty would also mean that other minority languages
would also need to be recognized including Greek, Aramaic, Turkish
and many others that the PYD have not advocated for.

According to the Syrian state media, during the Syrian peace talks in Astana last week,
the Syrian government envoy Bashar Jaafari, said
that the issue of federalism would be decided “by all Syrians
and not decided unilaterally by a single component,”
adding that
all ideas “even one as crazy as federalism, must be put to a democratic vote”

“It’s completely unacceptable for a single group of people
to decide to create a statelet and call it federalism,” Jaafari continued.

 

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The Kurds have gained and held the ground in the north,
the Arabs there are currently happy with the Kurds governing over them,
the Kurds have included the Arabs and other minority groups inside a council
so all are represented,
but Assad is saying nope...

The Kurds will likely be shat on
even though they are the only ones who stood up and thought against ISIS
and alongside the Yazidi in Iraq.
Assad couldn't fight; and the Iraqi army ran.
The Kurds need some respect and should be rewarded in my eyes.

The above view is understandable
and also..
naive.

The complexities have been discussed by myself and others on this forum
w/ respect to Peshmerga vs. Rojavans, w/ respect to Sovereignty vs. Hegemoney,
w/ respect to Oil and Pipelines and bribery and 'soft' genocide of indigenous populations...
not to leave out the larger 'players' and intelligence communities access and manipulations...
from Israel to Turkey to Germany to CENTCOM to the CIA and others.

I have to agree w/ Assad... later is better.
Let's at LEAST wait till McCain and Kissinger and Brzezinski are dead. hahaha.