DAMASCUS, Aug 3 (NNN-SANA) – The Syrian Foreign Ministry, yesterday, condemned a deal signed recently, between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and a U.S. oil company, to modernise the oil industry, in areas controlled by the U.S.-backed SDF, in northeastern Syria.
“This agreement is considered an integrated and aggravated theft and can only be described as a deal between thieves, who are stealing and thieves who are buying, constituting an assault against Syria’s sovereignty,” the ministry said in a statement.
The “null and void” deal is “a continuation of the U.S. hostile approach towards Syria” by “stealing the resources of the Syrian people and hindering efforts of the Syrian state, to rebuild what has been destroyed by terrorism that is mostly backed by the U.S. government itself,” the ministry statement added.
Syria’s oil and gas fields are largely concentrated on the northeastern part of the country, especially in the provinces of Hasakah and Deir al-Zour, which are largely controlled by the Kurdish-led autonomous administration.– NNN-SANA
