Second phase of Syrian intra-Kurdish dialogue includes administrative and military partnership – ENKS official

Abdulhalim Sulaiman

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Kurdish National Council in Syria (ENKS, a group of Kurdish opposition parties allied with the opposition Syrian National Coalition) said that the second phase of the intra-Kurdish dialogue will include administrative, military, security, and economic partnerships on the basis of the 2014 Duhok Agreement.

“The dialogue will be on the basis of Duhok Agreement between the Democratic Union Party (PYD, the leading party in the Autonomous northeast) and ENKS, taking into account the changes that have taken place since then,” ENKS leader Sulaiman Oso told North Press.

“Our Council, PYD, and their supporters have started the second round of the dialogue on Wednesday with the attendance of SDF commander-in-chief Mazloum Abdi and the US State Department envoy in northeast Syria, William Roebuck.”

“The stage is crucial and the challenges are great. So we must speed up in reaching an agreement satisfying all Syrians, especially our people,” Oso added.

In his special statement to North Press, Oso said that the unity of the Kurds contributes to the unity of the Syrian opposition and the political process in Geneva according to international resolution 2254 regarding the Syrian crisis.

Mazloum Abdi announced the success of the first phase of the intra-Kurdish dialogue and the start of the second phase.

The first Duhok Agreement was signed between ENKS and the Rojava People’s Council in the city of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in 2014. It provided for the formation of a Kurdish political authority in Syria, but it failed due to mutual accusations between the two parties.