PROVINCES - With the participation of representatives of various popular and unionist activities and academic and social figures from all spectrums of the society and political parties, independent, and opposition representatives, national dialogue sessions continued on Monday in the Syrian provinces and universities.
The sessions aim to come up with a common vision on the national level regarding a number of the political, economic, social and service issues.
Dialogue sessions, held at the international fairgrounds in Damascus with the participation of 350 political, economic, social and media figures, focused on the current and future political challenges and means of maintaining national unity and confronting foreign conspiracy as well as party, elections, local administration and media laws.
Participants called for speeding up holding the comprehensive national dialogue conference to reach a joint national form to get out of the current crisis and enhancing the socio-economic direction to reach social justice and boost national unity conceptions for young people.
The participants also focused on the necessity of activating the social subsidies fund and taking care of rural areas and providing agricultural requirements for farmers.
They called for activating freedom of press and avoiding defects of media work to confront foreign media challenges which is broadcasting lies and fabrications on Syria.
They pointed out to the necessity of finding a media national front tasked with confronting various conspiracies and seditions.
The participants talked about the mechanisms of modifying the constitution of the Syrian Arab Republic and drafting a new modern constitution that regulates the relationship between the citizen and the society, stressing what is happening in Syria today is a foreign conspiracy and a media war to undermine Syria's national stance which supports the Resistance in the region.
They called for adopting dialogue as the method to solve the crisis and cooperation between the authority and the national opposition to reach a solution and punishing every one who committed crimes against the Syrian people and used weapons illegally.
© SANA (Syria Arab News Agency) 2011
