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Syria’s new authorities want to establish control over weapons in country

According to al-Sharaa, all forces in Syria are committed "to the country’s unity and reject its division or separation of any of its part"

RABAT, February 3. /TASS/. Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president during the transitional period, vowed that this is a priority for the new authorities to establish control over weapons in the country.

"Our priorities are to establish control over weapons and concentrate them in the hands of the government," the SNA news agency quoted him as saying.

According to al-Sharaa, all forces in Syria are committed "to the country’s unity and reject its division or separation of any of its part." He said that talks are underway with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to "settle the problem of northeastern Syria."

"The SDF agreed that weapons should be concentrated in the hands of the state but differences still remain on certain details," al-Sharaa said.

Kurdish units control some 25% of Syria’s territory, including larger parts of the Raqqa and al-Hassakah governorates and northeastern parts of the Deir ez-Zor governorate, where oil fields are located. Since 2015, the United States has set up at least nine military bases in SDF-controlled territories.