UN Senior representative to NE Syria meets ENKS
QAMISHLI, Syria (North press) – US Senior Representative to Northeast Syria Nikolas Granger met on Wednesday with a delegation of Kurdish National Council in Syria (ENKS).
This came during his first visit to the region, where he met on Wednesday the Department of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) in the city of Qamishli.
His visit to the department came hours after another visit to the Hawl Camp to check the ongoing security operation in the camp to pursue Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.
During the visit to the department they were discussed efforts to repatriate foreign nationals in Hawl Camp, east of Hasakah Governorate.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.
Faisal Youssef, a member of the General Secretariat of ENKS, told North Press that Granger visited ENKS headquarters in Qamishli.
UN Senior representative confirmed to ENKS that the US will remain in northeast Syria and its efforts continue in the military and diplomatic fields to ensure the ultimate defeat of the ISIS, reassuring his country’s support to areas in northeastern Syria, according to Youssef.
The ENKS is a bloc of Kurdish political parties which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) and opposes the Democratic Union Party (PYD) which is the ruling party in areas held by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
The Kurdish ENKS leader pointed out that Granger stressed his country’s commitment to a political solution in Syria in line with the UN Resolution 2254, as well as the commitment to the unity of Syrian lands.
Youssef said the ENKS delegation expressed “their fears of the recent escalation on Syrian-Turkish border, which destabilizes the region and causes more displacements.”
ENKS delegation hopes that Ganger supports the “Kurdish issue, the Kurdish people and their rights.”
Youssef went further saying that the US representative will held other meetings with ENKS during his next visits.