Media Committee

     The Assembly of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Political Parties (ACSAPP) heldon Monday 16, 2011 a special meeting at the presidential and leadership levels. The meeting was held in the Chaldean Culture Society in Ankawa/ Erbil .

     The meeting was held to singe the political program and by-law of the assembly.

     A final survey of the program and by-law, ratified during yet an earlier meeting following thorough discussion, was carried out.  

     This was followed by a signing ceremony whereby the two documents were singed by the presidents and secretary generals of the (ACSAPP).  Following is the list of signatories;

Signatories

Mr. Younadam Kanna – Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM);

Mr. Fahmie Y. Mansour – President of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (CSAPC);

Mr. Sa’eed Shamaya – Secretary General of the Chaldean Democratic Forum (CDF);

Mr. Sargon Malek Nimrud- Representing Mr. Nimrud Beto the Secretary General of Assyrian National Party (ANP);

Mr. Romeo Hakari- Secretary General of Bethnahrein National Party (BNP);

Mr. Talal M. Yaldo – representing Mr. Ablahad Afram, the Secretary General of the ChaldeanDemocratic Party (CDP);

Mr. Dhia Putrus- Secretary General of the Chaldean National Congress ( CNC);

Mr. Paulus Shem’aoon- Chairman of the Board of Management of the Chaldean Culture Society (CCS);

Mr. Babel Gewargis, representing Mr. Sabah Michael, Head of Bethnahrein National Party (BNP);

Mr. Anwar Matti Hadaya, Chairman of the Independent Syriac Assembly Movement (ISAM);

Mr. Goriel Isho, Secretary General of the Chaldo-Assur Organization of the Kurdistan Communist Party(CAOKCP);

The Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) – by proxy;

The Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADM) – by proxy;

The Assyrian Democratic Party (ADP) - by proxy.  

     The Assembly’s By-law includes information about the assembly, membership regulations and organization chart that includes bodies, offices, committees, committee mechanisms and their tasks.

     The political program of the assembly, on the other hand, contains general principles governing the political attitudes of the assembly in its objectives through:

        reactivation the in-unison political attitude and common group work with an aim to realize our legitimate national and ethnic rights;

        work to secure the political, administrative, cultural and educational rights of our people;

        safeguarding the constituents of our peoples nationalist identity;

        loyalty to the nationalist unity of our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people and work to deepen it and raise up the awareness of our people on the issue;

        coordination of work between home and the exile in a manner that would serve the existence of our people on their ancestral land and the promotion of their cause;

        safeguarding the ethnic and religious identity and character of our people and boosting our peoples ties to homeland through finding ways of putting an end to the inexorable immigration, normalization of the conditions of our displaced people and compensation for the suffering they have been caused.

     On the national level, the program contains information on work for:

        the establishment of a governorate in the Plain of Nineveh (PN) for our CSAP in communion with other religious and ethnic components of the Iraqi people who coexist in the area;

        reactivation of Article (35) of the draft constitution of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (KR) which provides for granting an autonomous region for our people in the region following a referendum on the constitution;

        reactivation of the constitutional articles that guarantee the religious and ethnic character of the ethnic communities in Iraq and supporting the principle of national partnership;

        securing a just representation of our people in all the powers in the country;

        making efforts to support the democratic system in the country in collaboration with the other democratic and national powers ;

        work to implement the articles of the constitution of Iraq depending on the democratic values and practices, smooth handover of power,  respect for human rights and the acknowledgment of ethnic and religious multiplicity of the Iraqi people;

        removal of transgression and restoration of all misappropriated lands and properties;

        abolition of all laws that caused and are still causing demographic change and making just and remunerative compensation for the damage caused to owners;

        abolition of all laws that discriminate between the religious and ethnic components of the Iraqi people;

        step up efforts to pass laws that secure the rights of the religious and ethnic components of new Iraq .

     It also contains details of these objectives and mechanism to implement them on the ethnic and national levels.

     Following the signing ceremony, various other issues on the meeting agenda were discussed regarding the mechanism of the assembly work and the duties of the committees set up by the assembly as well as some recent developments for which a number of suitable recommendations and decision were taken.