Çiya Kurd: desperate bids to resuscitate Damascus would fail

Statements made by deputy co-chair of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Bedran Çiya Kurd came as he commented on the threats made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a joint Russian-Qatari-Turkish press conference held yesterday, in the Qatari capital, Doha, in which he stated that he agreed with his Russian and Turkish counterparts to fight what he dubbed ''secessionist attempts in Syria'' as an allusion to the people in North Eastern Syria that run it's lands via the Autonomous Administration, stressing that this comes after failure of the Astana meetings as well as the deliberations held by the Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva.

''these are merely desperate attempts to give life to the Syrian Regime and the dire situation it faces both internally and externally'', indicating that the economic depression that sweeps all areas held by the Syrian Regime as well as delimiting the role played by Iran from the Syrian Crisis all due to Israeli and U.S. pressures, and targeting Iranian sites in Syria intensively.      

Regarding the open Qatari interference into the Syrian Crisis, Çiya Kurd said'' the Syrian Government is heading lately to induce Arab countries and to invest their politically -instigated money, more notably of Qatar, that has been playing a very negative role in the Syrian Crisis'', adding that '' there has been attempts to revert the Syrian Regime to the Arab milieu and to re-admit the Syrian Regime into the Arab League''. 

As for the Russian role, Çiya Kurd noted that Russia tries via the Syrian Government to set up wider ties with the Arabs, indicating at the same time to the Turkish desire to rehabilitate it's relations with the Arab countries at the expense of the Syrian people and extension into the region, but all this would meet failure for the aim is just a part of Syria where people run their areas and all components are taking part, making false and fabricated statement at the conclusion of every meeting against the Autonomous Administration that it implies a secessionist schemes that poses threats to the Turkish national security'', confirming that this servers their joint interests against Syrians and the Autonomous Administration.    

Çiya Kurd made clear that the actual reality of Autonomous Administration on the ground contradicts this, for it is a democratic an Pan-Syrian one in which all components are taking part, that assures it has no secessionist intentions.

''secessionist intentions and actions are taking place explicitly in areas occupied by Turkey via deporting Kurds and settling extremists and building settlements in Afrin sponsored by Qatari money, as Israel does in the Arab occupied territories'', he said, indicating that the Syrian Crisis won't see light via externally imposed solutions rather it would aggravate Syrian's suffering, calling for all efforts to be exerted in line with the UN 2254 resolution, and to reconsider all means that were adopted in talks and deliberations that stemmed nothing, for the Syrian Crisis is being clutched by foreign powers, and regional and international inconsistency, stressing that the Arab role should be a more effective one in the international efforts played to solve the crisis.

At the end Çiya Kurd called on Russia to bear it's historic responsibility towards the Syrian people fairly, and to give impetus to the Intra-Syrian dialogue, based on a more democratic and political vision, for that is the sustainable solution to the Syrian Crisis.

L.A.

ANHA