Resolution #1

On October 17, 2008, the Board of Directors of the Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Council of America (CASCA) unanimously approved the adoption of the following core values:

1. CASCA advocates that all people who define themselves as Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, or Assyrians are one and the same;

2. CASCA abhors the use of such terms, which are and have been interchangeable, to separate our people or to divide them;

3. CASCA views the Nineveh Plain and adjacent areas where our people live as an essential and critical Last Stand of our people in cultural, political, demographic, linguistic, and religious terms;

4. CASCA calls upon all of the our organizations throughout the world, and in Iraq in particular, to support the plan for an autonomous region/self-administered area or region for our people in the Nineveh Plain and adjacent areas where our people live;

5. CASCA calls upon the United States government to support the plan for an autonomous region/self-administered area or region for the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people of Iraq;

6. CASCA calls upon the United Nations to support the plan for an autonomous region/self-administered area or region for the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people of Iraq;

7. CASCA calls upon the Iraqi government to support and to enshrine in the national law the plan for an autonomous region/self-administered area or region for Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people, pursuant to their desires as equal citizens of Iraq and as guaranteed and protected by the Constitution of the land;

8. CASCA calls upon the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to support and assist the plan for an autonomous region/self-administered area or region for our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people, and to enshrine the same in the KRG Constitution and all applicable Regional law.

Resolution #2
Agreement of Principles

1. To commit and work to secure full rights for our unified Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people, which include autonomous rule with complete political, administrative, cultural, social and economic rights. The autonomous rule will be established in the areas where our people have historically lived in the last century and where they presently live. The autonomous rule will need to be confirmed in the Iraqi constitution and the constitution of the Kurdistan region. Work and coordination at the local, regional, national and international levels, will be required to achieve this goal.

2. To refrain from publicizing and requesting that the autonomous rule area for our people be joined to the Kurdistan region or the Iraqi central government or any other administrative area. This issue will be left for our people to decide in a general referendum that will be held with supervision from international bodies such as the United Nations as well as other legal/civic organizations to ensure transparency and credibility of the results.

3. To identify and confirm the villages and lands of our people that had been legally or otherwise taken, or confiscated, by others in the Kurdistan region and the Nineveh plain. We will diligently pursue all legal, political and diplomatic means to return these lands and villages to our people.

4. To initiate friendly and diplomatic relations with all of our organizations in the hope of developing the coordination of our efforts to work for the good of our people and toward our mutual goal; and to stop all negative and hurtful media campaigns directed against any persons or symbol of our people. This should include all forms of written, audio and visual media.

5. To work diligently to help our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian refugees to return and settle in the Nineveh Plain, and to provide the necessary conditions for their security, as well as economic and financial assistance for their settlement.

6. To work in a diplomatic but assertive manner with all reasonable people and governments in the interest of our cause.

This 26th Day of November, 2008.