[2] The World Council of Arameans, an international non-government organization, approved of the flag on July 16, 1983 in New Jersey.

The design is specifically based on a relief depicting Gilgamesh between two bull-men supporting a winged sun disk, excavated in 1927 by the German archaeologist Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) and the French semitologist André Dupont-Sommer (1900-1983) at Tell Halaf the former Aramean city-state of Bit Bahiani which is located on the border of Tur Abdin region, today located in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria.

The sun disk is replaced by a flame to symbolize the Holy Spirit and the Christian heritage of the Syriac peoples.

The four stars represent the rivers in the Aramean homeland: Tigris, Euphrates, Gihon and Pishon.

The red background of the flag was chosen to represent the blood that was spilled during the Syriac Genocide.