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May 17th, 2017 
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nsnbc : The Syrian Kurds will not be able to attend the next round of Geneva talks on Syria due to Turkey’s anti-Kurdish sentiment said Salih Muslim, co-chairman of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic union Party – PYD.
PYD leader and co-chair Salih Muslim. (archives)
PYD co-chairman Salih Muslim added however, that the party is in contact with the United Nations’ mediators in the Geneva talks. On Sunday Muslim told reporters “We do have a relationship with the people who administer the talks, but there is no advance in our attendance… Even though we are not in Geneva, we are not the loser in this process.” Muslim referred to the PYD’s communications with the team of UN Special Envoy of Syria, Staffan de Mistura.
He stressed that a political solution could not be adopted without the participation of Kurdish representation in the talks. While the Syrian Kurds abstain from negotiations “due to Turkey’s approach,” Muslim stressed that they did not consider Ankara as an enemy. “The US and Russia know very well that without us, there can be no political solution in Syria. We may not be at the table now due to Turkey’s approach, but the forces that know there won’t be a political solution without Kurds want to include us in this process without discarding Turkey,” he said.
The UN-backed intra-Syrian talks between the Syrian government and opposition parties have been held since 2012 in Geneva. The latest round of talks will be held on May 16-19. Turkey has rejected the involvement of PYD in the talks, as it considers the PYD and its military wings, the YPG and the all-female YPJ as extensions of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a designated terrorist group in Turkey.
U.S regards the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party PYD and the YPG, which is part of SDF alliance, as key ally against Islamic State and the most effective fighting force against ISIS in Syria and has provided them with arms, air support as well as the military advisers. The Kurdish militia, which has about 60,000 fighters – including its all-female affiliate, the YPJ, has seized swathes of Syria from ISIS.
CH/L – nsnbc 16.05.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/05/16/syrian-kurdish-pyd-wont-attent-geneva-talks-salih-muslim/
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