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Kurds Key Part in Solving Syrian Crisis, Should Be Present at Peace Talks

© AFP 2023 / DELIL SOULEIMAN A member of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) mans a mounted machine gun in the Al-Nashwa neighbourhood in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakeh on July 26, 2015
A member of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) mans a mounted machine gun in the Al-Nashwa neighbourhood in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakeh on July 26, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Jean Lambert, a British member of the European Parliament said that Kurds are part of the solution to the tragic situation for Syria’s people and should be represented at discussions on the future of the country.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko – The Kurdish opposition in Syria is an indispensable part of a political solution to the crisis in the Arab republic and should be represented at the talks on the future of the country, a British member of the European Parliament told Sputnik on Tuesday.

Turkey’s leadership has stepped up calls to exclude the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), viewed in Ankara as an offshoot of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) based in southeastern Turkey, in much-anticipated talks this week. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was the latest to support Kurdish involvement in the dialogue, saying earlier on Tuesday that the intra-Syrian talks would bring no results without their participation.

"Kurds have been important in holding back the forces of ISIS [Islamic State jihadist group] in Syria and in promoting democratic politics there. They are part of the solution to the tragic situation for Syria’s people and should be represented at discussions on the future of the country," Jean Lambert said.

A picture taken on December 8, 2015 shows a general view of the two-day Syrian Democratic Conference in Al-Malikiyeh, a town in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, held by Kurdish factions to discuss a vision for Syria's future. Dozens of Kurdish, Arab, and Assyrian figures attended the conference including members of Syria's leading Kurdish movement, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), - Sputnik International
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Lambert, the UK Green Party’s spokesman on immigration, added that women deserve representation at the table.

The UN Security Council resolution, adopted in December, reaffirms the goals of the Vienna agreements to bring the entire spectrum of political groups in Syria to the negotiating table.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, who scheduled the much-anticipated talks between Syrian government and opposition delegates to be held on Friday in Geneva, began issuing official invitations earlier in the day.

Qadri Jamil, one of the leaders of the Syrian Popular Front for Change and Liberation coalition confirmed to Sputnik he had received the invitation. Jamil said PYD chair Salih Muslim Muhammad was included in the list of moderate opposition members, but could not confirm whether he had received de Mistura’s invitation.

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