“Local management” instead of “self-administration” is what was presented to the PYD

ARK News: A member of the People's Assembly in the Syrian regime said that a delegation representing the regime visited, on Saturday 7 December 2019, the city of Qamishlo in Syrian Kurdistan, and submitted to the PYD administration the project of "local administration" founded in the Syrian constitution for the year 2012 as an alternative to the "self-administration" that it is demanding

The newspaper “Al-Watan”, which is close to the Damascus regime, quoted Nawaf Tirad Al-Mulheim, the Secretary-General of the Syrian People's Party and member of the People's Assembly in the Syrian regime, saying that, Saturday's meeting in Qamishlo with Kurds, Arabs and Syrian personalities and forces in the northeast of the country came after a series of previous "coordination" meetings.

Al-Mulheim said that the representatives of the Northeast stressed during these meetings that "we Syrians have rights like every Syrian individual and the homeland has duties on us as well as on others, and we are not separatists, and we protect the borders of Syria and purify the northeast of the country from terrorism."

In response to a question if his delegation touched a response from the other party about the local administration project, Al-Mulheim said: “We did not sit down to discuss the points between local administration and self-administration, but this we raised and this is our program, and we agreed to discuss the positive points if it was in local administration and if it was in self-administration, and between us there would be a paper we agree with them and submitted to the government of the regime.”

Al-Mulheim described the content of the local administration project presented by his delegation as "the same project found in the Syrian constitution of 2012", and he considered that "their acceptance to discuss with us the most accurate details, their reservations and what they want, indicates their desire to discuss, and that they have no objection or reservation to meeting with the government of the regime, and researching the future of the Island within the Syrian territories."

Al-Mulheim mentioned that the Damascus delegation included alongside him the coordinator of the National Dialogue Follow-up Committee of the Ba’ath Party Faisal Azzouz, the Secretary-General of the Solidarity Party Muhammad Abu Qasim, a member of the Political Bureau of the Syrian Social-National Party Tariq al-Ahmad, the head of the opposition Peace Change Movement, Fateh Jamous, and the Secretary-General Parwin Ibrahim Youth Building and Change Party.

As for the delegation of northeastern Syria, it included a member of the General Council of the Democratic Union Party PYD Saleh Muslim, a member of the Syriac Union Party Joseph Lahdo, the head of the Kurdish Left Party Muhammad Musa, a member of the Unity Party Mustafa Mashayekh and a member of public relations Abdel Ilah Arabo.

The visits of the regime's delegations to Qamishlo come at a time when the Syrian Democratic Forces have handed over three new towns (Ein Isa, Tal Tamr, and Amouda) to the Russian military police and the Syrian regime.

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