MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Friday, the highly-anticipated talks on Syrian reconciliation mediated by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura began in the Swiss city.
The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has not been invited by the United Nations. The PYD accused Ankara of throwing its weight behind the UN decision.
"Syrian Kurds are citizens of #Syria. They have right to be involved in talks on future of their country," Borodavkin said as quoted on Twitter of Russian Mission to UN in Geneva.
A.Borodavkin:Syrian Kurds are citizens of #Syria. They have right to be involved in talks on future of their country pic.twitter.com/vHhemrcAXf
— RussianMissionGeneva (@mission_russian) 30 января 2016
Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in Syria. Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the intra-Syrian reconciliation talks would fail to reach a political settlement unless the Syrian Kurds were allowed to participate.
