Syria's Opposition to Meet With Russia's Deputy FM in Moscow Thursday

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Members of Syria's domestic opposition will travel to Moscow on Thursday ahead of first talks with Damascus delegates in Geneva this week, the head of one of the parties told Sputnik on Wednesday.

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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) The National Youth for Justice and Development's founder and president, Parwin Ibrahim, plans a Moscow trip to meet with Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.

"We are heading to Moscow tomorrow with a delegation of internal Syrian opposition to meet Bogdanov and communicate to him that the Geneva meeting will not affect the political process in Syria," Ibrahim said.

The politician said the talks would focus on the exclusion of Kurdish groups in Friday's sit-down, and derided Turkey and Saudi Arabia for playing a negative role in the reconciliation process.

"As we have stated earlier, we are not going to participate if armed groups are present at the negotiating table," Ibrahim stressed.

A representative of PYD in France told Sputnik earlier in the day the Kurdish party has not been invited for intra-Syrian talks on Friday, citing pressure from Turkey.

Russia has maintained that the intra-Syrian dialogue would suffer with the exclusion of Kurdish representatives.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu upheld Kurdish participation in the negotiations, but reaffirmed Ankara's official stance equating PYD with the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), both groups classified there as terrorist organizations.

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