The Kurdish issue in Syria should not exacerbate tensions in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during the interview with Rossiya-24 TV channel.
"Kurds live in Iraq and Iran, and, of course, a huge number of Kurds live in Turkey. And no one wants this region to "explode" because of the tension around the Kurdish problem, no one wants the Kurds to feel that they are second-class people, " the Russian Foreign Minister stressed.
The problem of the Kurds in Syria, according to Lavrov, "is more widespread than just in the refraction of the Syrian crisis."
On October 9, Ankara announced a military operation in Northern Syria to create a security zone there. On October 22, Russian and Turkish presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a Memorandum on joint actions to resolve the situation in the Northeast of the Arab Republic.
According to the document, Russian military police and Syrian troops are being deployed to areas bordering the Turkish operation zone. Kurdish forces were given 150 hours to fully liberate the 30 km-wide zone along the Turkish border, after which the Russian and Turkish military start joint patrols.
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