Mrs. Attiya Gamri, President of the Assyrian Confederation of Europe (ACE), explains the reason why the ACE recently issued a statement demanding to separate the Assyrian churches from national issues. She tells about the clergy’s submissiveness to different regimes, currently to the administration of the Barzani clan, as a very dangerous act in such a critic time, when the Assyrians demand an autonom area in their ancestral lands the Nineveh Plains. Let the clergy take care of religious matters and the profane organisations of political matters. If not this historic opportunity will be lost, she adds.