We believe in the right of the Syrian people to live with freedom and dignity, these rights can only be defended by a democratic system that provides citizens with equality, justice and progress. This necessitates that Syria be rid of the current tyrannical regime that has been suppressing the wills of the Syrian people for nearly half a century.
We believe that the regime is not able to subdue the popular revolutionary movement, despite its extreme use of brute and naked violence and despite the consequences of such a tactic – counter violence and foreign intervention. The great sacrifices that the Syrian people has been able to balance out the power of the regime, but it is still far from achieving a victory because of the international balance of powers that refuses to see the victory of one side over the other. The stalemate makes the continuation of the violence merely a path to the destruction of the Syrian state, society and being.
In order to minimize the painful cost of the desired change, and to protect what can be protected from our country’s infrastructure and our national unity, we at the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria, which is an active part of the Syrian popular movement against oppression and one of the main forces against violence and foreign intervention, propose the following: