Published: August 26, 2015
Revised: November 1, 2015
Mission Statement
Our Mission
The Council for Assyrian Parliament (CAP) is a provisional committee dedicated to facilitating the path by which the Assyrian people will elect a representative-based democratic body. This secular, self-determining, and global body will seek to foster harmony, a singular vision, and a path towards specific goals for the Assyrian nation and its people through representation, legislation, and governance. Upon the successful implementation of the parliamentary body, the CAP will be dissolved.
We invite all individuals, organizations, and communities who desire to attain these goals to participate in CAP’s mission.
Our Principles
The CAP intends to create an environment by which global representatives within the Assyrian community can convene and agree on the issues of the utmost importance. By focusing global efforts, across multiple continents and organizations, the CAP hopes to create a greater impact on the issues that affect Assyrians the most, both in their native homelands and in the diaspora. As an autonomous entity, the organization intends to do so by instituting a parliamentary body, consolidating and focusing our influence on the issues that are the most pertinent to the Assyrian cause.
The anticipated parliament can agree on specific issues as worldwide initiatives, and implement those priorities regionally, in order to advocate for the rule of law, democracy, indigenous rights, economic and human security, non-discrimination under the law, ethnic and religious equality, and the issues that the Assyrian people are the most passionate about.
The CAP seeks to create the parliamentary body with a great sense of urgency. The processes leading up to its inception include the creation of rules of order, census data gathering, election procedure writing and analysis, and considerations for global and cultural implications for Assyrians in the places in which they reside.
Although the CAP members are working as volunteers, the parliament that the CAP seeks to implement will also have revenue mechanisms, which will compensate elected members of the Assyrian Parliament financially. These elected representatives would then have an economic, fiduciary, and ethical obligation to those that he, or she, represents. All representatives within the Assyrian Parliament will be restricted to serving within term-limits, and may not hold political positions in other governmental bodies.