By GPD on January 29,
2016
Russia will not allow certain participants
of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva to exclude Kurds from participating,
Russia’s envoy to the UN Office in Geneva Alexey Borodavkin said Friday.
GENEVA (Sputnik) — The Syrian Kurdish
Democratic Union Party (PYD) has not been invited by the United Nations
to the talks. The Kurdish party accused Ankara of throwing its weight
behind the UN decision.
“The Syrian opposition that met
in Moscow and Cairo insists that the opposition delegation should include
Syrian Kurds. There are difficulties in this regard. Some members
of the Vienna format oppose this,” Borodavkin told reporters.
According to the Russian diplomat,
none of the issues on the agenda for the upcoming talks could be
discussed without Kurds. The Kurdish delegation’s participation
in the talks is still being coordinated, he noted.
“This is not a constructive position and
we should not give in to such blackmail,” he added.
The UN Security Council unanimously
adopted Resolution 2254 on Syria’s civil war settlement on December
18, which calls for an immediate ceasefire and defines a January deadline
for UN-facilitated peace talks to commence.The Syrian Kurds are
among those who put up resistance to terrorist groups fighting
in the country. But Ankara, a key regional player, has been opposed
to involvement of the PYD in Geneva talks, claiming it is linked
to the pro-independence Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant movement,
which is active in southeastern Turkey and considered a terrorist
organization by Ankara.
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.
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