The Syrian government condemned the entry of European delegations into the areas controlled by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the country’s northeast.
State news agency SANA quoted an official source at the Foreign Ministry as saying that “representatives of some countries involved in the war against Syria have carried out practices which constitute a flagrant violation of international law and a blatant attack on the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
“A Dutch delegation headed by the so-called special envoy for the Syrian file illegally entered Syrian territory in collusion with SDF militias under the pretext of receiving a number of ISIS terrorists held by the militias,” according to the source.
He added: “A French delegation from the Danielle Mitterrand Foundation and the Paris City Council illegally visited Qamishli city as part of the direct French involvement in the aggression against Syria.”
Moreover, “Turkey asked its forces, working alongside the terrorist groups in Idlib, to establish a general secretariat for the civil registry in the province and form local councils in cities, towns and villages that are under the control of the terrorist groups,” continued the source.
Syria “expresses its categorical rejection and strong condemnation of these practices and reiterates its determination to extend the state’s sovereignty over all its territory and liberate them from Turkish, US, and other foreign occupation.”
On Saturday, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria handed four ISIS relatives, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation.
The delegation included the Netherlands’ Syria envoy Emiel de Bont and senior foreign ministry official Dirk Jan Nieuwenhuis. It entered Syrian territory from the Kurdistan region of Iraq, accompanied by security protection.
Many European delegations enter northern and eastern Syria to retrieve children and women from the families of ISIS militants.
