Hamdan Ebid: Damascus government powerless

In an exclusive interview carried out by ANHA with Hamdan Ebid, Co-chair of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, on the position of the Damascus government towards the recognition given to Lohansk and Donetsk labelling at the same time the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria as a separatist project.

Co-chair of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said: the Damascus government is not interested in a political solution to the Syrian crisis. This is very clear from the onset of the crisis. It brought in regional powers to repress protests and fight Syrians and labelling them time and again as terrorists and separatists''.

Hamdan Ebid said that the ''Damascus government claimed time and again that is was a legitimate government but it was revealed that its decision and sovereignty are usurped. It mortgaged all economic sources of the country to such powers under bargains, but in reality it has sold Syria''.

Co-chair of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria indicated to the ''hostility embraced by the Damascus government to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria though the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spared no efforts in fighting the terrorist groups of ISIS and other groups supported by Turkish occupation state but in spite of all this the Damascus government labels the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria as a terrorist one''.

To the wonder of Hamdan Ebid the Damascus government recognised both separatist lohansk and Donetsk republics at time the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has never sought separation rather it has always sought a national solution to the crisis that may end the struggle and preserves the integral unity of Syria''.

Co-chair of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria noted that the decision by the Damascus government was an appeasement to the Russian Federation though no international recognition is received. '' the Syrian government recognises two separatist states and does not embrace dialogue with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and accuses it of separation, ignoring all calls of a national dialogue within Syria and based in a constitution agreed by all''.

According to the Co-chair of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria the Syrian government is not interested in ant political solution rather it embraces military options in the same way Russia did in Ukraine''.

Hamdan Ebid denounced the statement made by Syrian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faial Meqdad on separation and demographic change alleged by Meqdad. Hamdan said '' we are all Syrian and we do not seek separation, they make such statement to avoid dialogue. Regarding the demographic change Hamdan said they had never displaced locals on the contrast there are many people from areas held by the Syrian government live in areas under  the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria''.

Hamdan Ebid concluded by reiterating'' we are Syrian, patriotic, they push us to separation, we have never been separatists. We want a unified Syria''.

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ANHA