The first steps of normalization between the opposition coalition and the PYD enter into implementation

A few days after many of citizens of Syrian Kurdistan are moving to Saudi Arabia due to their performance of the rituals of Hajj.

On Tuesday 45 of the pilgrims in Syrian Kurdistan arrived through the crossing Semalka – Pish Khabour under the supervision of the Union of Muslim Scholars "of the PYD management and in coordination with the Supreme Committee of Syrian pilgrims of the National Coalition for the Forces of the Revolution and the Opposition, which in turn took all the necessary measures and procedures for their delivery to Saudi Arabia.

The Supreme Committee of the Syrian pilgrims of the National Coalition for the Forces of the Revolution and the Opposition that they have opened the registration for the pilgrimage for Syrian citizens residing in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The committee said in an official statement that they have taken all the necessary measures and official approvals with the support of the Kurdistan Regional Government in order to going about a hundred Syrian pilgrims from Hawler airport to the pilgrimage, where the number of those who will perform Hajj from the Syrians through the office of the Higher Committee for Hajj in Erbil is 120 people, including 45 students will come from the regions of Syrian Kurdistan, and the rest of the Syrian refugees residing in the province of Kurdistan.

It is noteworthy that the Committee had signed with the Saudi Ministry of Hajj Syrian pilgrims contracts for the current season, last February, an increase of 3,500 pilgrims from last year, which reached the number to 19 thousand pilgrims.

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