August will mark the beginning for the implementation of the transitional rule in Syria. Besides other matters, a core issue of this above mentioned process is the adoption of a new Constitution for Syria.
Some leaks in Arab and European press and social network indicate some peculiar aspects of the draft constitutional project pushed by Moscow and Washington.
According to those leaks(Al-Akhbar newspaper) Al-Assad stripped from most of his legislative and executive authorities.
Syria looses its Arab and Islamic identity, turning into a federation where the borders are set according to ethnic and sectarian considerations.
Syrian army is not to be implicated in any future wars outside the Syrian lands.
Thus the first article of the 2012 Constitution refers to Syria as the Syrian Republic instead of the Arab Syrian republic.
The third article, which indicates that Islam is the state’s religion and that Islamic jurisprudence is the main source of legislation is simply dropped in a new redaction.
Arab and Kurdish languages set as the two official state languages regardless the fact that Kurds represent no more than 25-27% of the total Syrian population.
The fact that the Kurdish forces will play a major role in freeing Reqqa and Mosul will not come without a price.
Adopting decentralization as a basis for the ruling system and giving wide powers to the regions’ parliaments that were dubbed “areas’ administrations.
So no wonder that in this new draft the term “People’s Council” is replaced with “People’s Association”.
While the armed forces is subjected to the president, the appointment of the prime minister and the ministers must take into account the relative representation of all the religious and ethnic groups.
In other words this very fact of changing the administrative system means in reality the consolidation of sectarianism within the ruling system.
In fact if this project is implemented, it will turn Syria in a sectarian and ethnic state, dropping the original and global Syrian national identity, breaking Syria’s ties with the Arab and Islamic world and banning any role in confronting the Israeli in occupied territories in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
There is no new thoughts and bright ideas in this project. Once, it was sketched and forced onto the neighbor Iraq. And now we have a weak, dismantled, unstable Iraq with no global national identity and the place where ISIS was born and feel itself rather comfortable and aggressive.
Being implemented this project, may constitute the real threat for all region by giving start to the partitioning and dismantlement plans in global dimensions.
Regarding the Russian geopolitical position and its closeness to this region (apart to America), it may pose a real threat to the Russian security interests and its territorial integrity in near future.
I can understand Americans who did the same in Iraq and failed there. May be it is for this simple reason they don’t like this country. But I hardly understand Russia who reportedly succeeded in Syria
Bookmarks