New opposition coalition in Syria for comprehensive change

Several opposition parties in Syria called on Sunday for the foundation of a new alliance that includes all national and liberal forces in order to ensure vaster political participation.

This new coalition, which was attended by Kurds activists, called for uniting visions and attitudes of the opposition in order to achieve basic demands including democratic and deep change in the country.

Activist Akram al-Bunni said that the opposition parties call for halting acts of repression and to open a new page in the history of the Syrian homeland.

In conclusion of its meeting in Damascus, the party issued what is called "The Damascus declaration" whose signatories called on all components of the Syrian people for the "need of the fundamental change in the country and rejection of all forms of partial or incomplete reforms."

The signatories called on transforming the country from the security state to a political state.

The declaration also called for "preparing the way to convene a national conference that all ambitious forces to make a change can take part, including the ones that accepts that from the ruling regime."

The declaration was signed by the democratic national coalition in Syria; the Kurdisk democratic alliance in Syria; the civil society revival committees; the Kurdish democratic front in Syria; the al-Mustaqbal ( future) party; the Syrian committee for human rights, and independent figures including the opposition parliamentarian Riad Seif who is currently in prison.