Russia will not be blackmailed into excluding Kurds from Syrian peace talks – Russian diplomat

© AFP 2016/ LOUISA GOULIAMAKI Russia will not allow certain participants of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva to exclude Kurds from participating, Russia’s envoy to the UN Office in Geneva Alexey Borodavkin said Friday. The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has not been invited by the United Nations to the talks. The Kurdish party accused Ankara of throwing its weight behind the UN…