(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Kurdish National Council (KNC) on Thursday has handed over two letters to the U.N Envoy to Syria and to the head of the opposition demanding a constitutional recognition of the rights of "the Kurdish people, senior Kurdish officials said.
Abdul Karim Hajjin the KNC representative in Europe, told Zaman al-Wasl that the Kurdish delegation had expressed its support for finding a peaceful solution and for the necessity of the constitutional recognition of the rights of the Kurds in the pnew Syrian constitution.
On Thursday, representatives of the Syrian opposition and the regime sat just meters apart in separate rooms at U.N. peace talks, but mediator de Mistura stopped short of bringing them together in what diplomats had hoped might be a minor breakthrough.
Previous rounds of talks have gone almost nowhere, with de Mistura shuttling between hotels and meeting multiple delegations separately. A newly unified opposition had raised the possibility of face-to-face talks to speed up the talks.
Although the two delegations were in the U.N. building concurrently, de Mistura kept them apart, dashing between their respective meeting rooms on either side of a corridor.
In relevant development, Ibrahim Biro, leader of the Kurdish National Council (KNC) told Anadolu Agency (AA) on the sidelines of the Syrian peace talks in Geneva that the U.S. support for the PKK's Syrian affiliate Democratic Union Party (PYD) is not in the interest of Kurds. "This support will affect Kurds very badly," he added.
Biro also said Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens and Assyrians are all under the new formation, but not the PYD, as none of the opposition groups accept the terrorist organization as part the delegation.
"The PYD closed down all the political parties that did not support them in the north of Syria. They also arrested and detained many members of some parties, especially the KNC. Several members of the KNC are currently detained by the PYD," he said.
"It is not good for Kurds that the U.S. is supporting PYD elements in regions where Arabs live, and this support will affect Kurds very badly because the places where they are fighting are not the Kurdish region. An organization like the PYD should never take control." (Zaman al-Wasl, Agencies)
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