Syria Warns Against Any Attempt to Undermine Its Unity, Territorial Integrity
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Syrian government warned against any attempt to undermine Syria’s unity and territorial integrity under whatever names.
The warning was expressed by a Foreign and Expatriates Ministry source, speaking in a statement to SANA on Thursday.
The government “warns any party against attempting to undermine the territorial integrity of Syria and the unity of its people under whatever names,” the source said in the statement.
That, it added, includes those who gathered in al-Rmeilan city in Hasaka province.
“Raising the issue of a federation or that of federalization would affect the territorial integrity of Syria, which goes against the Constitution, the national concepts and international resolutions,” the source said.
“Any declaration to that effect would be without any legal value and void of any legal, political, social or economic effect as long as it does not reflect the will of the entire Syrian people with all their political leanings and social spectra, who are all committed to the national unity and territorial integrity of their country,” the source added.
The source went on saying that “The main task for our people now is combating terrorism, and any deviation from this goal would be considered support for terrorism and for all those who try to weaken Syria and undermine the will of its heroic army in its endeavor for restoring security and stability nationwide.”
It came in reaction to reports that Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has voted to create an autonomous federation in the northern part of Syria.
Officials of the PYD claimed autonomy in the Kurdish-controlled areas on Thursday after two days of meetings with delegates of different communities in the country's north.
Representatives of the Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian communities and other ethnic groups met in the town of Rmeilan in Hassakeh province to discuss combining three Kurdish-led autonomous areas into a federal system.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with Takfiri terrorists from various groups, including Daesh (ISIL), currently controlling parts of it.
