Syria backs out of Paris talks with Kurdish-led fighters: State TV

Government root says caller Kurdish-led league ‘dealt blow’ to talks connected implementing a March integration deal.

Syria’s caller authorities volition not instrumentality portion successful planned meetings with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) successful Paris, Syria’s authorities quality bureau has reported, arsenic tensions equine betwixt the 2 sides.

SANA’s study connected Saturday formed uncertainty implicit an integration woody signed this twelvemonth by the equipped radical and Syria’s interim government, which took implicit aft the overthrow of longtime President Bashar al-Assad successful December.

Quoting an unnamed authorities source, the quality bureau said the authorities wants aboriginal negotiations to beryllium held successful the Syrian capital, Damascus, “as it is the morganatic and nationalist code for dialog among Syrians”.

The SDF was the main unit allied with the United States successful Syria during warring that defeated ISIL (ISIS) successful 2019. In March, the SDF signed a deal with the caller authorities to articulation Syria’s authorities institutions.

The woody aims to stitch backmost unneurotic a state fractured by 14 years of war, paving the mode for Kurdish-led forces that clasp a 4th of Syria and determination Kurdish governing bodies to integrate with Damascus.

However, the statement did not specify however the SDF volition beryllium merged with Syria’s equipped forces. The radical has antecedently said its forces indispensable articulation arsenic a bloc portion the authorities wants them to articulation arsenic individuals.

Saturday’s study comes a time aft the Kurdish medication held a league involving respective Syrian number communities, the archetypal specified lawsuit since al-Assad’s removal from power.

The conference’s last connection called for “a antiauthoritarian constitution that … establishes a decentralised state” and guarantees the information of each components of Syrian society.

Damascus has antecedently rejected calls for decentralisation.

In its study connected Saturday, SANA said the authorities “stresses that the SDF league dealt a stroke to the ongoing dialog efforts” towards implementing the March agreement.

“Accordingly, the authorities volition not enactment successful immoderate meetings scheduled successful Paris, nor volition it beryllium astatine the negotiating array with immoderate broadside seeking to revive the epoch of the deposed authorities nether immoderate sanction oregon cover,” the study said.

Participants successful the Kurdish-organised league besides criticised the authorities implicit sectarian clashes successful Syria’s confederate state of Suwayda and the coastal region.

“The existent law declaration does not conscionable the aspirations of the Syrian people. … It should beryllium reviewed to guarantee a wider participatory process and a just practice successful the transitional period,” the conference’s last connection read.

The quality is the latest successful a caller struggle betwixt the Syrian medication and the SDF aft clashes betwixt the radical and authorities forces this month.

The SDF connected Saturday accused government-backed factions of attacking areas successful northeastern Syria much than 22 times.

It said it had exercised restraint during specified “aggressions” but the continuation of attacks “threatens communal spot and undermines understandings”.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies