DARAMSUQ — The leadership of the Syriac Cultural Association met with Minister of Culture Muhammad Yassin Salih to discuss cultural affairs, the preservation of Suroyo (Syriac–Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) heritage and language and the Association’s efforts to strengthen Suroyo identity within Syria’s emerging cultural framework. The meeting brought together representatives of the Association and the Culture Ministry amid an increasingly consequential debate over how Syria’s cultural institutions will recognize and protect the country’s linguistic diversity.