UN Secretary-General talks about the situation of the Kurds in Syria and Iraq
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed his interest in the situation of the Kurds in Iraq and Syria.
“I’ve always been very interested with the situation of the Kurdish people,” Guterres told Kurdistan 24’s Moscow Bureau Chief Khoshawi Mohammedat a press conference during a visit to the Russian capital.
“For several years,” he said, “there was a serious problem of statelessness [for] Syrian Kurds and I interfered as much as I could” to solve the problem.
The Secretary-General also addressed the situation in Syrian Kurdistan’s Afrin region following a Turkish-led campaign targeting the US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Asked about the conflict between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the Secretary-General said the UN is working to resolve disputes between Erbil and Baghdad.
