BEIRUT: President Bashar Assad must leave Syria at the start of transitional process, go before international justice and be held accountable for war crimes, said the chief of Syria's main opposition body on Monday.
He rejected the prospect of putting in place a federal system in the war-torn country, warning that it would lead to partition. “Syria's unity is a red line. This issue is non-negotiable and the idea of federalism is the prelude to the partitioning of Syria,” the head of the High Negotiations Committee, Riad Hijab, told reporters.
“This is completely unacceptable,” he said. “We agreed on the idea of administrative decentralization” at the Riyadh conference in December 2015 when the HNC was formed. Syria's Kurds, who have set up three autonomous regions since the outbreak of the war in 2011, back the idea of federalism.
In January 2012, several Syrian Kurdish groups proposed that a referendum be held to give voters the choice between decentralization, autonomy or federalism.
He rejected the prospect of putting in place a federal system in the war-torn country, warning that it would lead to partition. “Syria's unity is a red line. This issue is non-negotiable and the idea of federalism is the prelude to the partitioning of Syria,” the head of the High Negotiations Committee, Riad Hijab, told reporters.
“This is completely unacceptable,” he said. “We agreed on the idea of administrative decentralization” at the Riyadh conference in December 2015 when the HNC was formed. Syria's Kurds, who have set up three autonomous regions since the outbreak of the war in 2011, back the idea of federalism.
In January 2012, several Syrian Kurdish groups proposed that a referendum be held to give voters the choice between decentralization, autonomy or federalism.
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