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| Syria Kurds seek talks with Damascus amid regional detente |
| 2023-04-20 |
| [AlAhram] Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration said it was ready for talks with Damascus, as the government's ties with Arab states thaw more than a decade after the country's war broke out. The government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad The Scourge of Hama... rejects the Kurdish administration in north and northeast Syria and accuses it of "separatism". Several rounds of talks since 2018 between Damascus and the Kurds -- who control most of the country's major oil and gas fields -- have failed to achieve any results. "We affirm our readiness to meet and talk with the Syrian government and with all Syrian parties to hold discussions and present initiatives for a solution," the Kurdish authorities said. The statement denied any separatist ambitions, "affirming Syria's territorial integrity" and calling for Syria's resources to be shared "fairly". The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish administration's de facto army, spearheaded the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems... group in Syria, driving it from its last stronghold in the country in 2019 with US backing. Assad has been politically isolated in the region since Syria's war began in 2011, but a devastating February 6 earthquake that killed thousands in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Syria sparked Arab outreach. A flurry of diplomatic activity has been underway in past weeks as Middle East rivals Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. Until the accession of King Salman the place was under the thumb of Wahhabi holy men and was the driving force behind Salafist terrorism world-wide. Western intelligence agencies, even the dumb ones, were wise to this from at least September 12th, 2001, but politicians were reluctant to upset the international applecart. Once we started assassinating people instead of invading them the Saudis quietly folded the Death to Infidelstent, did some assassinating of their own, started modernizing, and pretended that Osama bin Laden thing had never happened... and the Syrian government's ally Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate patched up ties, shifting regional relations. On Tuesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with Assad in Damascus, in the first visit by a Saudi official since the conflict began. The pair discussed steps to achieve a political settlement for Syria's return to the Arab fold, according to the Saudi foreign ministry. Last week, diplomats from nine Arab countries met in Saudi Arabia to discuss ending Syria's long spell in the diplomatic wilderness, and Syria's foreign minister visited Saudi Arabia for the first time in over a decade. The Kurds in the statement urged "Arab countries, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and international forces... to play an active and positive role in searching for a common solution". They said they were ready to share resources including oil and gas "through an agreement with the Syrian government" following "dialogue and negotiation". Turkey has also made overtures towards Damascus in recent months, stoking further fears among Syria's Kurds. Ankara considers the People's Protection Units (YPG) -- which dominate the SDF -- as an offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated as a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies. "Any party or individual working for a foreign power is simply a traitor and a collaborator," Assad told broadcaster Russia Today in an interview last month, when asked about the YPG. |
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