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2- Committee exploring the reasons and elements taking part in the system of
corruption, with the mission to describe mechanisms of prevention of corruption
and promote values of integrity.
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Committee to establish a media law.
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Committee for judicial reform.
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Committee for administrative reform.
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Committee for national dialog.
And many other legislative and regulatory decrees and strategic decisions that
have failed to be brought up in the High Commission report.
• Blaming Syria’s security services as a sole responsible for what’s happening in
Syria is irrational, incorrect and expresses a unilateral perspective. It is the duty of
state’s security services to protect private and public property, and to achieve a
calm, safe and stable environment for its citizens, taking into consideration that
the vast majority of this crisis’s victims are police, armed forces and security
service agents who were murdered by groups of armed terrorists. They were
attacked at their places of work or while protecting peaceful demonstrators,
everybody was exposed to fire attacks of masked individuals, a segment that was
completely overlooked by the High Commission report.
• Another erroneous belief included in the High Commission report is the mention
of how Syrian economic reform is being put on hold. On the other hand, in the
reports delivered by many of the international organizations participating in
development programs in the country, there is a mention of how the economic
reform lead by Syria went beyond anything that has been done in the neighboring
states.
Some of the adopted contemporary economy standards were noticeable in the
following areas:
1– Social market economy.
2– Adopting liberal economy and exchange with all world countries.
These new measures in economy had reflected on elevating lifestyle, decreasing
poverty and diminishing the development gap among the different areas in Syria.
This was mentioned in reports issued by consecutive International Monetary
Fund’s missions to Syria.
All this and tens of legislative decrees that gave a boost to Syria’s economic
reform, while taking into account that the Syrian economy is not bound to a
specific geographic area, each part of Syria has its own advantages related to the
economy.
• The idea that the Kurdish population of Syria is excluded from power, or from
Syria’s civic life until 2011 is far from the truth. What really took place in March
2011 is that tens of thousands of Kurds were granted Syrian citizenships, a gesture
no other country had made toward its alien residents. The Kurds of Syria have
occupied high political, military and civic positions; we can produce detailed
count of this claim at the demand of the High Commission.
• Despite the fact that protestors in Daraa had specific reform demands since the
beginning of the uprising, peculiarly, the report referred to the origin of Daraa’s
demonstrations as being a popular uprising against power abuse by local
authorities. Later on, the High Commission report also mentioned that Daraa’s
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