Kurds want to attend Syrian opposition meet in Kingdom

(MENAFN- Arab News) BEIRUT: Syrian Kurds need political and military representation at a Syrian opposition conference organized by Saudi Arabia next month because they are a main partner fighting Daesh and important to Syria's future a Syrian Kurdish leader said.
Some groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad are wary of the Kurds whom they see as collaborating with Damascus a charge they deny.
Saleh Muslim co-chair of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) said no official invitations for the conference had been received yet but that the PYD expected to be represented via the National Coordination Body a broader internal opposition group.
What was more important was representation of armed factions Muslim said. This meant the Democratic Forces of Syria a new US-backed coalition force involving the Kurdish YPG militia and Arab fighters must be allowed to attend.
'They are the main partner against Daesh. Those forces are taking the areas liberated from the regime and from Daesh so this group should be a part of it' he told Reuters by telephone describing the new armed alliance as 'a project for the future of Syria.'
'If there is Free Syrian Army (invited) this group should also be represented. The representation of the autonomous (Kurdish) area also should be there because they are a main factor in this conflict' he said.
The YPG militia has seized swathes of Syria from Daesh with the help of US-led strikes. The Syrian Kurds have declared an autonomous administration across parts of northern Syria along the Turkish border rankling Ankara which has fought a decades-long insurgency against Kurdish PKK separatists.