Syrian regime evades duties with hypothetical conspiracies: Syria’s Autonomous Administration
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) said that the Syrian regime discusses hypothetical plots to evade its duties.
This came in a statement by the AANES’ Foreign Relations Department responding accusations made in a letter from the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates to the Secretary-General of the United Nations about the Israeli airstrikes on the city of Deir ez-Zor and the Abu Kamal region.
On Wednesday, Israeli warplanes targeted military sites of the Syrian government forces, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah, and Liwa Fatemiyoun in the city of Deir ez-Zor and the Abu Kamal area in the southeastern countryside of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor governorate.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in its letter that Israeli aggression on Deir ez-Zor coincides with the practices of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which it described as separatists and terrorists.
“This language and these policies impede the solution and dialogue, and deepen the crisis in Syria,” the Autonomous Administration statement said.
“AANES is committed to working within the goals and principles that we believed in and our quest for a decentralized, democratic, pluralistic Syria,” The External Relations Department added.
In response to the Syrian Foreign Ministry’s accusation of the SDF being a hostage or tool of the United States, the statement said: “We reject all forms of dependency and surrender to any external force, and are proud of our Syrian national role, our affiliation, and the goals that we seek in our Syrian country.”
AANES’ statement accused the Syrian regime of fabricating a crisis in the city of Qamishli last week, and called on it to not create ambiguity about its positions and escalations in Ain Issa and its cooperation with the Turkish occupation to hand Turkey more Syrian territory.