Kurds Should Take Part in Syria Talks If 'They Back Geneva, UNSC Decisions'

© AFP 2023 / DELIL SOULEIMAN Kurdish children hold a flag of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and banners during a demonstration against the exclusion of Syrian-Kurds from the Geneva talks in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on February 4, 2016
Kurdish children hold a flag of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and banners during a demonstration against the exclusion of Syrian-Kurds from the Geneva talks in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on February 4, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Kurds should participate in the Syrian peace talks if they agree with Geneva and UN Security Council decisions on the crisis settlement, Syria’s Tomorrow's spokesman, a new moderate opposition faction, said.

Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) and Head of the Government delegation Bashar al-Jaafari (3rd L) faces UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria Staffan de Mistura (2nd R) at the opening of a new round of negotiations of peace talks on Syria at the United Nations Office in Geneva in this March 21, 2016 (File photo) - Sputnik International
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CAIRO (Sputnik) — Akbik stressed that Kurds first needed to renounce claims that they were cooperating with the Syrian government or wanted to create an autonomous region within the Syrian territory.

"The process of federalization or creating an autonomous region should not be unilateral. It should be decided on a national level… No one should force their unilateral decisions on others: neither Kurds on the rest of Syrians nor anyone else on Kurds," Monzer Akbik, a former spokesman of the Syrian National Coalition, told RIA Novosti.

"Every part of the Syrian society that agrees with decisions made in Geneva and UNSC – on the Syrian territorial integrity, transitional process – must participate [in the talks]."

Syria’s Tomorrow emerged in March in a new bid to unite liberal opposition forces under one umbrella organization. It is headed by Ahmad Jarba, the former chief of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, better known as the Syrian National Coalition (SNC).

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