ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) on Wednesday met with representatives of the new Syrian government to address their differences over the controversial Syrian Constitutional Declaration, according to a war monitor.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Wednesday reported that representatives from Damascus and AANES are “holding political dialogue to discuss a mechanism for amending the provisions of the recent Syrian Constitutional Declaration.”

The war monitor claimed that the negotiations aim to reach “a consensus formula that guarantees the representation of the interests of the residents of North and East Syria.”

The talks come in light of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) objection to the inclusion of provisions which they claim were not included in the original agreement reached with Damascus on March 10, according to SOHR.

An official statement has yet to be published by either side at the time of writing this report.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed the country’s draft Constitutional Declaration on March 13, three months after toppling the Bashar al-Assad regime. The document was drafted based on the Syrian National Dialogue Conference held in late February, which was slammed by Kurdish authorities for their “token representation.”

Shortly after the declaration, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the SDF’s political wing, announced its “complete rejection” of the document, slamming it as “tyranny in a new form.”

 A conglomeration of Kurdish factions came together in Qamishli in late April to hold a conference aimed at unifying the position of Kurdish parties in Syria, where they discussed a declaration consisting of 26 articles, asserting that Syria must be “decentralized” and urging “the unification of Kurdish regions as an integrated political and administrative unit within the framework of a federal Syria.”

The war-weary Syrian authorities and the Kurdish-led administration are both cautiously taking steps toward addressing their differences through dialogue, however, they have both repeatedly expressed their displeasure with the other’s positions regarding the future of Syria.