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Russia Should Support Kurds in Political Arena Amid Syrian Settlement

© AFP 2023 / DELIL SOULEIMANKurdish women hold flags 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 women hold flags 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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Kurdish Democratic Union Party co-chairman thinks that Moscow should support Syrian Kurds on the political arena.

U.N. mediator on Syria Staffan de Mistura attends a meeting with the Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) during Syria peace talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, April 15, 2016 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Moscow is standing in the center of the Syrian conflict’s settlement and should use its power to support Syrian Kurds on the political arena, Salih Muslim, co-chairman of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Sputnik.

"Russia is our friend. It must support us in the political arena. We are awaiting stronger solidarity from friends," Muslim said in an interview.

He added that Moscow was in the heart of the solution of the Syrian issue and could use its authority during the next round of Geneva talks on Syria’s reconciliation.

"Russia has an effective force in this matter, it can do something for the Syrian settlement," Muslim said.

While the Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, none of their representatives have been invited to the intra-Syrian negotiations, the latest round of which took place in Geneva on April 13-27.

Russia has been calling on the United Nations to invite Syrian Kurds to the proximity talks on settlement of the five-year civil war in Syria.

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