Jammu, May 4 -- President's current approach hardly helpful to resolve the impasse
By Manish Rai
The Conference on Kurdish Unity and Common Stance was recently concluded in Qamishli, North-East Syria. Over 400 delegates from various parts of Syria participated in the conference, which aimed to strengthen Kurdish unity and establish common political positions. A communique at the end of the conference, which was also attended by United States officials, demanded that a future Syrian constitution should enshrine respect for Kurdish national rights in post-Assad Syria.
The most important point of the pan-Kurdish statement was advocacy for Syria as a decentralised democratic state. Unfortunately, without giving much thought to this idea, the...