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Syria’s Kurds not invited to Geneva peace talks
[Rudaw] Syria's Kurds -- one of the forces fighting the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) forces in that country -- will not be represented at peace talks scheduled for this Friday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed on Wednesday. He said that UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, had not invited the Democratic Union Party (PYD) to the Geneva peace talks. "The PYD group was causing the most problems, and Mr. de Mistura told me he had not sent them an invitation letter," Fabius said according to Rooters. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... opposes the PYD having a presence at the talks since it perceives the group to be little more than the Syrian wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Russia has insisted that the PYD be represented in the talks. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov went as far as arguing on Tuesday that it would be impossible to reach a peace agreement in Syria without including the Kurds in talks. While the PYD hasn't fought the regime of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , it has fiercely combated the ISIS group.The opposition at Geneva is to be represented primarily by groups backed by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... which, last December, gathered representatives in Riyadh for a summit. Riyadh did not invite the PYD back then, likely due to the fact that the PYD has not fought Assad to date. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-28 |
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