Statement
On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian
Popular Council foundation
Dear sons of our Chaldean Syriac
Assyrian (Soraya) people at home and abroad
On 15 of May each year we renew with
faith, determination, perseverance, firmness, self-denial and real national
work, the CSAPC celebrations with its
people in home and abroad on the anniversary of its establishment, where the
sixth anniversary pass and the PC is stronger and more confident in working for
our people’ interest, and during this short time and a full record of
achievements, gains, and substantive, clear, logical and explicit positions of
all national issues, it has proved to have its role in the national action among
our people.
The Council was able with practicing democracy
and the votes of our people at home to have five parliamentary seats in the
Iraqi Parliament and the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region, and received a
ministry in the Region as an election right, and took confident steps in achieving
its objectives and ensuring the legitimate rights of our people, as well as
activating its role based on the decisions, recommendations and the political
program of the two PC conferences on December 2007 and January 2009. The Council has an active and leading role on delivering
our people’s voice, their national demands and the injustice done to them to the
Federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region governments as well as the international
community, through its presidency, its executive general boards, its offices
and committees at home and abroad and its representatives in the Iraqi Council
of Representatives and the Kurdistan Parliament, where it organized during its
struggle many successful conferences and international meetings, in many
countries of the world which have had a significant impact on stirring the
world public opinion towards our fair issue, also was able to overcome all the
difficulties, challenges and obstacles it encountered during its national march,
with determination and confidence, where the pioneer founders of the Council
and its members and supporters declared their position against frustration,
despair, and the painful situation of our people, and their institutions in home,
through its firm belief of our national unity, the importance of joint work, the
united discourse, the legitimacy of our rights, the justness of our cause and
sacrificing in order to achieve our complete rights just like our partners in
homeland, despite the emergence of some attempts that sought to tear and divide
our national unity to serve some personal interests, and which have been
rejected by our people in many democratic electoral practice and national position.
Today our Council and its people celebrate
the sixth anniversary of its founding, where we have to commend its role in the
gains our people achieved in the Kurdistan Region, by including the national
unity of our people and the autonomy in the draft Constitution of the Kurdistan
Region, which is considered a historic achievement made for our people at home.
The Council, our people parties and organizations, the clergy, the Dignitaries Councils
and other institutions had the prominent role in responding to the series
attempts of bringing about the demographic change that affect the historical
areas of our people, the PC takes this topic so seriously because it carries a
lot of risks and it fears the presence of serious attempts to confiscate our
rights in our historical land by seizing them under various pretexts, and on
this basis we renew our call to the Government of Iraq to response to our
people’s call and stop these serious abuses, which sometimes are passed in the
name of public interest and construction and at other times in the name of
democracy and human rights, in an apparent attempt to terminate our cultural
and social identity, to cancel our national and historical presence and to seize
our historical lands, so we ask the Iraqi government to apply the Council of
Ministers decision on developing sub-districts and municipality sections in the
Nineveh Plain, to provide an opportunity for the other components in the region
to own lands outside our areas and our land, we also ask the Kurdistan Regional
Government to continue to raise the encroachments in some villages and towns of
our people in the region, as this will contribute to protecting the privacy of
our towns, our national presence and our cultural identity and will put an end
to immigration bleeding and the encroachments on our territory.
On the national common work and the
unified discourse levels, which were embodied in the establishment of the Chaldean
Syriac Assyrian Political Organizations Assembly in homeland in 2010, and where
the Council had an active, a vital and essential role in establishing it, for
our firm belief in the national work and the common discourse among our
organizations, in order to achieve the legitimate demands, including the
development of the province for our people in the Nineveh Plain on geographical
and administrative basis in participation with the other national and religious
components coexisting there, as well as the autonomy in the Kurdistan Region,
and participating in the elections in a coalition and a united electoral list,
and to work together in various national positions and activities. The days and
experiences of the past have proven that every organization or institution’s
alone decision led to the loss of many opportunities and gains for the benefit
of our people. Our firm conviction is that our people’s getting their full
rights as an essential partner in the home can only be achieved by uniting our
organizations work, with the spirit of one family and one team no matter how
long that might take.
Our people in the country still suffer from
marginalization and the repercussions of the non-stable political and security
conditions, the unemployment and lack of confidence on returning to their work
and home in many parts of Iraq, especially in Baghdad and Mosul, and this makes
them be the prey and victim of migration, despite the promises and the emotional
and sympathetic speech of Iraqi officials that have no real actions on the
ground, so our Council calls for the Iraqi Government to take exceptional and
serious measures to address the concerns and problems of our people in homeland,
and those who have returned from neighboring countries and the Diaspora, so as to
meet their legitimate demands and needs on having decent work, housing,
compensation and security, without delay or procrastination, because they are
affected psychologically and physically due to the circumstances in home where
they are considered the weakest link.
Despite the passage of ten years since the fall of the
dictatorial regime, our country is still going through a very sensitive,
dangerous and difficult conditions, and the political process as a whole is
threatened to become a failure, and its future is on the edge, where it faces a lot of obstacles and complications due
to the differences of positions and interests conflicts between the large political
parties and blocs on wealth and influence, also putting the personal interest over
the national interests, the loss of confidence in one another, the absence of
dialogue, wisdom and calm in addition to the regional interventions in Iraq’s
affairs; on the basis of the national partnership principles and as a
contribution of our Council in the political process, we appeal to our brothers
in all the large political blocs in Iraq for a comprehensive national reconciliation,
and to address the crises, disputes and differences with dialogue and
negotiations, in accordance with the supreme national interest of all sects of
the Iraqi people, on the basis of no victor nor loser.
Regarding the continuation of popular protests and strikes
and the escalation in some provinces, our Council supports the constitutional
and legitimate demands of protestors and appeal to the Government and the Parliament
not to involve the army in this situation nor using rapid force, and instead to
address those legitimate demands to ensure that justice and the realization of
rights are achieved for all the Iraqi components, this will prevent those
behind the border from exploiting the exceptional circumstances to pass their
agenda and twist the real purpose of the protests, which as a result will not
serve the national interest and the historically unity of the Iraqi components.
With regard to the difficult and painful circumstances
and conditions of the Syrian people, including our CSA (Soraya), our Council
expresses its deep concern for their continuation, and their effects, complexities,
negative and dangerous implications, and on this occasion we appeal to the International
and Arabic community to stop the bloodshed and the use of excessive military
force , to resort to negotiations and dialogue, to respect the will of Syria people
of all national and religious sects to self-determination, to provide
humanitarian assistance for Syrian refugees in neighboring countries and the
region for their essential needs and to give our CSA(Soraya) people their full national
legitimate rights, and on this occasion we strongly condemn and deplore the abduction
of the two archbishops (Mar Yohnna Abraham and Mar Pauls AlYazigi) in Syria and
demand freedom for them, because they are conveners of love, peace and
co-existence.
In conclusion our Council confirms its persistence
on its patriotic and national principles in order to achieve the legitimate
rights of our people.
Salute to the sons of our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian (Soraya) in the sixth
anniversary of the PC foundation.
Glory and immortality to the martyrs of our people and the martyrs of freedom
everywhere
Presidency of the
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council
15 May 2013
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