A spokesperson for the Syrian opposition “Salvation Front,” led by the former Syrian vice president turned dissident, Abdul-Halim Khaddam, stated that the second annual conference to be held in the German capital, Berlin, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth of this month, will focus on activating its activities both domestically and internationally to achieve the desired change.
Salah Aiyash, a member of the General Secretariat and responsible for foreign relations in the front, said on Friday, “The Berlin conference will focus on restructuring the front and its institutions and consolidating the foundations of democracy in its institutions with the aim of intensifying its activities and work, especially domestically, and generally abroad to end tyranny and build a civil democratic republic, and establish the foundations of democracy,” he expressed.
Aiyash added, “The number of participants in the conference exceeds 110 people from all intellectual and political categories of the Syrian communities and members of the front worldwide, including domestically.”
He further stated, “Parliamentarians and politicians from Germany, the Netherlands, and other European countries supporting the freedom of the Syrian people and their liberation from the oppression they have been suffering from for about four decades will attend the opening session of the conference as guests,” without ruling out the possibility of participation by members of the U.S. Congress as well.
The Syrian opposition considered this participation as “confirmation of the recognition by the mentioned countries of the Salvation Front and their support for the front’s project in peaceful democratic change.”
The “Salvation Front” held its first annual (founding) conference at the “Dorchester” hotel in London in June 2006.
