MOSCOW,— The delegation of the Kurdish Federation of Syrian Kurdistan (northern Syria), which was supposed to visit Moscow to meet with Russian politicians, was stopped at the border between the Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan by the KDP peshmerga forces, Syrian Kurdistan’s representative office in Moscow said Tuesday.

According to the Syrian Kurdistan representatives, the delegates were not provided with explanations over the refusal to proceed with their journey.

“The delegation of the Syrian Kurdistan, which, in particular, included Biriban Osman Hassan, co-chairman of the Kobani Canton Government, and a representative of an influential women’s organization Star Union of Women, Norin Akvar, was prohibited from crossing the border of Syria and Iraq by the representatives of the Iraqi peshmerga [Iraqi Kurdish militia],” the office told RIA Novosti.

According to the representative office, in Moscow Syrian Kurds were to meet with the leadership of some of the Russian parliamentary parties to discuss the prospects of the Kurds’ Federation of Northern Syria as well as take part in the round table “Women against religious extremism in the Middle East” on April 8 at Russia’s lower house.

Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Democratic Party KDP led by Massoud Barzani is not comfort with the Syrian Democratic Union Party PYD, the biggest Kurdish party ruling in Syrian Kurdistan, as the KDP sees it same as PKK organization.

Barzani said last March any support to the Kurdish PYD party means support for the Turkey’s outlawed PKK. “They are exactly one and the same thing”, the US reacts to Barzani comments and reconfirms that Washington views the PYD and PKK as “two separate entities.”

Political experts say Massoud Barzani, sees PYD party as potential political competition.

Syria’s Kurds on March 17, 2016 declared a federal region in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) in the country’s north.

Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik last week, that it would be impossible for Syria to exist as a federal state because the country is too small. He also claimed that the majority of the Kurds wanted to live in a united and not a federalized country.

The powerful military wing of PYD, the Kurdish forces of People’s Protection Units YPG, which the U.S. and Russia consider an ally in the fight against Islamic State, are the most effective group fighting IS in Syria, as the Kurdish militia has seized swathes of Syria from Islamic State.

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