Mohammed Ismail: This is our view of the safe area

ARK News: The administrative official of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria, a member of the presidential body of the Kurdish National Council Mohamed Ismail said that the safe zone or security zone is not clear yet, and there is ambiguity in the positions of the influential countries in Syria.

He added in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that "our people are concerned about the possible scenarios, whether the return of the regime as sought by Russia or Turkish intervention or the introduction of Arab forces."

On the other hand, Ismail considered that the document signed between the Kurdish National Council and the National Coalition of the Forces of the Revolution and the Syrian Opposition, do not meet the aspirations of the Kurds and their struggle and sacrifices for decades, but it remains the best formula reached with the Coalition among all other opposition frameworks.

There are many conversations and dialogues today about the East Euphrates, how do you see the most appropriate solution for the region and the whole of Syria and your position on the launch of the safe area or security?

The safe area or security zone is not clear yet, and there is ambiguity and vague in the positions of the influential countries in Syria on this, and the next phase will witness interactions between these parties.

The best remain solution is to create an experience in which all components of the region, national and religious, and existing forces and events will be shared, in a joint administrative and military-political agreement, and under international supervision and supervision, reassuring neighboring countries as well as components, and facilitate the return of the displaced and achieve relative stability until the political process in Syria fully.

What is the position of the Kurdish Council from the scenarios presented to the region, whether the Turkish intervention, or the bringing of Arab forces, and how can reduce the popular fears of it?

The fact that our people apprehensive of the possible scenarios, whether the return of the regime and its militias as sought by the Russians, or the intervention of Turkey and its militias from armed groups, and the experience of Afrin, who stands before us in its tragedies, or bringing in Arab (Egyptian-Saudi) forces that are unaware of the region's conditions and diversity.

Each of these implements its agendas and does not facilitate access to a political solution, in the end, America and Turkey can come together, and we must all seek to be under international and international supervision; the experience I have mentioned remains the best formula for that.

The Kurdish Council proposes a project, in the name of "Kurdistan region of Syria," it has already been declared that the region extends from the Tigris River in the Malikiya to the Mediterranean Sea. Where did your national project reach? And what about Afrin, in addition to that the safety or security area in the east of the Euphrates will start from Jarablis?

The Kurdish National Council did not put the project of Kurdistan region nominally only, but we call the areas where the Kurdish majority lives and where the people of the Kurdish people lived before the formation of the Syrian state with its current borders, "Syria's Kurdistan."

We do not say "Kurdish" because there are other components in it, and we believe in pluralism and coexistence between all the national and religious components in the region.

This does not mean in any way the separation from Syria, which is invoked by Turkey, Iran, and Syria, justifying their repression and persecution of the Kurdish people, and not to recognize our inherent national existence in this region full of nationalities and different races.

The name of the Kurdish Council and the forces of the Roj Peshmerga, is used to manage the safe area, is the solution lies in receiving the region at the expense of the rest of the parties?

The Kurdish National Council in Syria has a reserve force which is Roj Peshmerga of the young Syrian Kurds who fled the Syrian army or prosecution, trained in the Kurdistan region highly professional, the only force with a white hand in the Syrian revolution, not to practice murder, kidnapping, pillage and looting, and other practices of other armed groups.

But they protect the honor and dignity of the Syrians in our region with their various affiliations, in conjunction with all the forces of all components of the region in the protection of vital installations and facilities and the administration that will be formed.
How can you describe the relationship with the Syrian opposition supported by Turkey?

We are part of the Syrian National Opposition and within the National Coalition of the Revolutionary Forces and the Syrian Opposition. After the formation of the negotiating body in Riyadh, Turkey has become one of the main countries interested in the coalition, and our relations are good with all the different components of national and religious and ideological in the coalition, and we consider Turkey is a neighboring country and influential in the Syrian file because of its geopolitical position, and we appreciate its interests and internal suffering, but it failed to prove to the public that it is against terrorism

Does the document signed between the Council and the coalition meet the Kurdish aspirations?

The Coalition affirms its commitment to the constitutional recognition of the identity of the Kurdish national people, to consider the Kurdish issue as a national Syrian issue, and to recognize the national rights of the Kurdish people as part of the unity of the country. This formula is not what the Kurds aspire to as a result of the struggle and sacrifice of decades of repression and persecution, but it remains the best formula reached with the coalition among all other opposition frameworks.

How do you evaluate the relationship between you and the Democratic Union Party, especially after its uniqueness in dialogue with the regime, and its non-acceptance of political partnership with you, and is the Kurdish Council ready to dialogue with the regime?

The relationship of the Democratic Union Party is bad with all the Kurdish forces and not just with us, which is part of the "PKK" Marxist nature, which does not accept partnership with anyone, this Party talks to the regime without the knowledge of his associates in the so-called "Democratic Council of Syria"; the Kurdish National Council favors dialogue as a better method of combat than any other option.

However, the regime does not have any intention to recognize, nor the rights of the Kurds or others, and it only demands the rights of citizenship (the good citizen according to its standards), and we prefer dialogue but with the presence of an international party guarantor, on the other hand, we are part of the Syrian negotiating body, negotiating the regime under international supervision and nations

The Kurdish National Council often reiterates the need to accept the Democratic Union with the principle of political partnership. How will it work with a political party accused by Turkey of terrorism, and you are not ready for Turkey's hostility?

We did not ask for a political partnership with the Democratic Union, but we ask that all components in the region be shared by political, administrative and military joint agreement and not by political agreement only and that the democratic union and its militants should not play a pivotal role.

The opposition is counting on the path of the solution in Geneva, which has been stalled for nearly two years in the event of a US withdrawal and the return of the solution to the path of Astana or Sochi, where are you as a Council and a Coalition of a peaceful solution in Syria?

We are with the peaceful political solution in Syria, and we are a part of the political process under international auspices in accordance with the Geneva Convention and UN Resolution 2254, and we are involved in all committees of the Constitution, the Electoral Commission, and others. But so far all the tracks are slow because it is up to the understandings of influential countries, especially America and Russia.

In any case, both the negotiating body and the coalition, they represent the broad spectrum of the Syrian opposition, which represents the Syrian society with which we will live and build together the future of Syria.

You are always talking about the rights of the other components in the Council's positions. How can they be dealt with by rejecting the project of the Kurdistan Region of Syria, and to what extent can the Kurdish Council be described as the future umbrella of all components?

We believe in the rights of all components, belief in common action, and we prefer to live together on whatever other option we have. The Kurdish National Council is a political entity that has a political vision on the future of the Syrians in addition to the rights of the Kurds, we are not militias that fear the Syrian people. The designation of our regions as "Syria's Kurdistan" is an acknowledgment of the existence of others and their role. It does not have separatist or hostile backgrounds for any other Syrian component, and we have moved away from the word "Kurdish" so as not to be interpreted as purely nationalist.

In all meetings of the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Masoud Barzani, confirms his concern about the fate of the Kurds in Syria, where the role of the Council of reassuring Barzani on the future of the region, and whether the Kurdish Council still enjoys the political weight that characterized the early establishment, especially in its relationship with the Kurdistan region?
We cherish our good relations with the brothers in the Kurdistan region, and we appreciate the role of President Masoud Barzani for his interest in all components of the region, especially our Kurdish people We are keen on the accuracy and correctness of our positions and our relations and the clarity of our vision, Mr. Barzani and all those who are jealous of our cause, our nation, and our people are reassured. The Kurdish National Council enjoys wide popular support within the Kurdish community in Syria, as a result of the 62 years of struggle, we have the support of all the fanatical fighters for the values and principles of struggle, both in the Kurdistan region and elsewhere.

You, as a Kurdish council, and the other party, the Democratic Union, are trying to represent the Kurds in any international or regional forum, while we see that the majority of the decision-making countries in the Syrian issue, discuss the fate of the Kurds in Syria with Mr. Masoud Barzani, where are you from that?

The fact that Mr. President Masoud Barzani, a Kurdish nationalist symbol, and not only for Iraqi Kurds and when the strings of international communication in his hand is a reassuring response to that issue in good sound and that his sovereignty supports what we agree among ourselves on the Kurdish issue, and dictates nothing to us, but in the range of counseling, I am concerned with the moral support of his sovereignty.

Source: Al-Jazeera

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