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Kurds Pleased to See Syria Drop 'Arab' From Official Title in Draft Constitution

© AFP 2023 / DELIL SOULEIMAN A Kurdish man waves a large flag of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), during a demonstration against the exclusion of Syrian-Kurds from the Geneva talks in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on February 4, 2016
A Kurdish man waves a large flag of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), 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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A member of the Democratic Union Party said that Syrian Kurds welcome the exclusion of the word "Arab" from the "Syrian Arab Republic" title in the Russian draft of the Syrian constitution.

Participants of Syria peace talks attend a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan January 23, 2017. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) Syrian Kurds welcome the exclusion of the word "Arab" from the "Syrian Arab Republic" title in the Russian draft of the Syrian constitution, a member of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) said Friday.

"There are some very positive suggestions among those made by Russia. It includes the removal of the word 'Arab' from the Syrian title, so that it reads 'Syrian Republic' instead of 'Syrian Arab Republic'," Khaled Issa told Sputnik.

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