(21 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 21 February 2025
1. Wide of Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for National Dialogue committee
2. Mid of al-Daghim
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for National Dialogue committee:
“It is a matter that is up for discussion by the citizens. We are now gathering opinions, comparing them, and analyzing them. But no, there is no obligation. I mean, if the transitional government is formed before the national dialogue conference, this is normal, and if, for example, the dialogue conference took place before the formation of the government then the caretaker government may be extended until the end of the national dialogue.”
4. Cutaways of al-Daghim
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for National Dialogue Committee:
“These sensitive security issues that cannot be postponed have been resolved, and victory has been achieved. What’s left is the drafting of a constitution, the building of the economy, transitional justice, reform of the institutions, freedoms and the question of how the authorities deal with the people. I mean, there is even talk of a social contract, for example, meaning the foundations observed for establishing social peace in Syria.”
6. Cutaway of al-Daghim
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for National Dialogue Committee:
“Half of the Syrian people are outside Syria, we cannot decide for all Syrians. So the vision of the Syrians in all the provinces and what they raise in their conference should be recommendations. However, these recommendations are not only in the sense of advice and formalities but also recommendations that the President of the Republic is waiting for in order to build on them.”
8. Various cutaways of al-Daghim talking to reporter
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for National Dialogue Committee:
“The second thing that got a consensus among the Syrians we met and their representatives is the unity of the country. There was a great rejection of the issue of quotas, cantons, federalization or anything like this. There was no request to (separate). There was a complete rejection of any separatist movement.”
10. Cutaway of al-Daghim talking to others
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for National Dialogue Committee
“One of the first things on which we see a consensus was the issue of transitional justice, and that civil and societal peace cannot be established in Syria except through the gateway of transitional justice, which begins with holding criminals accountable, fixing the damage, and respecting and sanctifying the souls of the victims. Without this, it is not possible to achieve civil peace.”
12. Various cutaways of al-Daghim talking to others
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for National Dialogue committee
“The Kurds are a component of the people and founders of the Syrian state. They are Syrians, wherever they are. Reaching them does not have to pass through a military gate.”
14. Wide of al-Daghim walking
STORYLINE:
An official with the committee preparing a national dialogue conference in Syria to help chart the country’s future said Friday that no decision had been taken on whether the conference would take place before or after a new government is formed.
The date of the conference has not been set and the timing “is up for discussion by the citizens,” Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for the committee, told The Associated Press in an interview in Damascus Friday.
“They are Syrians wherever they are.”
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