Canada repatriates nationals of ISIS family members from NE Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Canada’sMinistry of Global Affairs repatriated on Tuesday four nationals of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) family members from camps in northeastern Syria.
This took place in a visit by an official Canadian delegation to northeast Syria that was received by officials of Foreign Affairs Department in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
The delegation included Sebastien Beaulieu, Director of Security and Emergency Management for Global Affairs of Canada, Rasta Daei, Head of Office of Embassy of Canada in Syria and Lebanon, and Tariq Gordon, Deputy Director of Threat Assessment Division in Canada’s Global Affairs.
Beaulieu, in an exclusive statement to North Press, said that the delegation aimed to repatriate four nationals, two children and two women, from northeastern Syria.
The delegation was received by Fanar al-Gait, deputy co-chair of the Foreign Relations Department in Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and a number of officials of the administration.
The Canadian official stressed that his country “conducted this operation on the bases and insured the health and wellbeing of the four Canadians.”
Earlier, the Canadian government brought three children home in three batches from northeast Syria.
The two parties discussed several common issues, especially paths for solving the Syrian issue in line with international resolutions that seek to solve the crisis, including UN Resolution 2254.
Fighting terrorism and supporting the region in services, economy and humanitarian fields were among the issues tackled during the meeting, according to the AANES Foreign Affairs Department’s website.