Hawal Issa, a member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Kurdistan Union Party (PYKS), said about the fate of the talks between the Kurdish Patriotic Council (ENKS) and the Kurdish Patriotic Union Parties (PYNK) that: "Kurdish talks have been going on for almost a year. Talks between the two sides started with the mediation of the US representative and the presence of Mazlum Kobani (SDF commander), but it has been halted for nearly three months due to the US elections and the change of the US representative in the talks."

He continued: "After [US President Joe] Biden took office as the new president of the United States and while the negotiations were going on, Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) officials made false statements about Roj Peshmerga and the ENKS, which WERE unfavorable."

"Some of them, and especially the PKK, do not want these talks to come to fruition and make irresponsible statements in public," the official further told KurdPress.

"The ENKS sees the Kurdish-Kurdish talks as strategic and takes it as important," the PYSK said about the ENKS opinion about the talks.

He added: "The ENKS does not accept such statements and has announced to the American side and the PYNK that the PYD should apologize to the Kurdish people and the ENKS."

"We look at the Kurdish-Kurdish talks from a strategic point of view and we will continue to do so, provided that either Aldar Khalil steps down as the head of the the Kurdish-Kurdish talks or apologizes to the ENKS," Hawal Issa said.

The Kurdish politician stressed that the PYD and its agents did not stop their actions against the ENKS and that a few months ago they set fire to the offices of the ENKS in Syrian Kurdistan and arrested a number of Kurdish intellectuals and journalists and enlisted children as fighters.

Some two months ago, Aldar Khalil, a member of the leadership of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the head of the PYNK negotiating team, called the Roj Peshmerga forces "criminals" and "affiliated with Turkey."

The issue provoked a sharp reaction from the other side of the negotiation, the ENKS, which called the PYD a branch of the PKK and accused it of being a dictatorship in Syrian Kurdistan.

However, it is reported that the US representative in the talks between the two sides has made arrangements for talks to be resumed and called on both sides to end tensions and not to bring their problems to the attention of the media.

In an interview with KurdPress, Kufan ​​Kanao, the leader of the Syrian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP.S), said that the talks between the ENKS and the PYNK had been suspended due to the end of the US envoy's mandate and the inauguration of the new US administration, but have not stalled.

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