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Syrian Kurdish National Council: We
weren't invited to participate in Friends of Syria
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The head of the negotiating team of the Syrian
Kurdish National Council Abdul-Hamid Darwish.
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April 1, 2012
CAIRO, — The Kurdish National Council
said Saturday that it will not participate in the
second Friends of Syria conference in Istanbul on
Sunday after not being invited to attend the event.
The head of the negotiating team of the council
Abdul-Hamid Darwish said the council was not invited
officially to participate in the conference "which
supports one side of the opposition - the National
Syrian Council - while there are a lot of the Syrian
opposition".
According to Darwish, the first Friends of Syria
conference in Tunisia did not achieve any steps in
resolving the Syrian crisis.
"What's the point of holding conferences for the
Friends of Syria without helping the Syrian people
and providing relief and treatment for patients?,"
Darwish questioned.
France said it will confirm at the conference its
intention to host the third meeting of the group,www.ekurd.net
which aims to find an end to the current Syrian
crisis and provide humanitarian assistance to the
Syrian people.
Opposition activists said that the Syrian artillery
shelled parts of Homs and at least 37 people were
killed in clashes in different parts of the country
on Friday. UN peace envoy Kofi Annan urged Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad to order his forces to
cease-fire and withdraw.
According to the British-based Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights the total death toll of civilians
and military personnel since the start of the Syrian
uprising in mid-March last year has now reached some
7,700 people. President Assad said he is fighting
"terrorists" and "armed gangs" supported from
abroad, which have killed 2,000 government troops.
By Sara Ali
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