Damascus Governorate holds dialogue session in Old Damascus entitled “For Damascus, we converse”

The Damascus Governorate held on Saturday a participatory dialogue session entitled “For Damascus, we converse” with residents and business owners at Anbar office in Old Damascus.

The interventions of residents and business owners focused on the problems facing them in their daily life.

In a statement to the media, Damascus Governor Eng. Mohammad Tariq Krishati confirmed that the dialogue with the citizens comes within the leadership’s directives, to be a strategy for the government to identify their requirements and address the obstacles that hinder their lives, livelihoods and the services provided by the governorate. He noted that the governorate launched regional dialogues to draw up a policy and strategy for its work to preserve all the cultural, artistic and touristic frameworks of the old city with all its heritage and cultural components.

Director of the Old City Eng. Mohammad Rashad Daabal pointed out that this dialogue meeting is to discuss the service reality of the Old City of Damascus and the services provided by the governorate to enhance the contribution of the local community in decision-making in cooperation with Damascus Governorate.

For his part, Director of Technical Studies in Damascus Governorate, Muammar Al-Dakkak, shed light on the possibility of restoring many green spaces, noting that the establishment of a park next to Bab Kisan was proposed.

The sessions launched by the governorate aim to find out about  the opinions and suggestions of the attendees from the residents to survey the opinion and involve the community, civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations, religious and spiritual bodies in dialogue with them, to draw up the governorate’s future policy and listen to the obstacles they face and their requirements and the projects and services necessary to develop the old city to reach correct development visions that serve the public interest.

Inas Abdulkareem