(MENAFN) The anti-government Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), which is linked to the SDF umbrella militant group, has said again that it is ready for unconditional peace talks with the central government in Damascus, Press TV reported.
President Bashar al-Assad has labeled the US-backed militants as "traitors" to the Syrian nation but in an interview last month, he left the door open for negotiations as he announced "two options" in dealing with the SDF issue.
"The first one: we started now opening doors for negotiations, because the majority of them are Syrians, supposedly they like their country, they don't like to be puppets to any foreigners. If not, we're going to resort". to liberating those areas by force," he said.
"It is positive to see comments about a summit for Syrians, to pave the way to start a new page," the SDC said in a statement on Sunday.
Agence France-Presse quoted leading SDC member Hekmat Habib as saying that both the council and the SDF "are serious about opening the door to dialogue" with the government.
"With the SDF's control of 30 percent of Syria, and the government's control of swathes of the country, these are the only two forces who can sit at the negotiating table and formulate a solution to the Syrian crisis," he said.
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