Syria’s future constitution should guarantee the equality and inclusion of all religious minorities in order to stem emigration, a Syrian minister told AFP on Tuesday.
“We have to have a new constitution, which includes everybody, and [in which] everybody is equal under the law,” Syria’s Social Affairs and Labour Minister Hind Kabawat told AFP.
Kabawat is the only woman and only Christian in the Islamist transition government headed up by Ahmed al-Sharaa set up after the 2024 fall of former president Bashar al-Assad.
The transitional parliament set up since al-Sharaa came to power has the task of coming up with a new constitution.
Syria, a majority Sunni Muslim country, is home to one of the world’s oldest Christian communities.
