00:00On the ground, let's talk on the ground concretely, Damascus is taking back control of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa in northeastern Syria.
00:07These areas that were held by Kurdish forces for more than 10 years, a region that is rich in oil and gas as well.
00:14This raises a question about the end of Kurds' de facto autonomy in Syria.
00:19The clear goal here for Damascus government is to restore strong and central authority and not to allow any local autonomy.
00:29On the military side, the agreement plans to reintegrate or to integrate Syrian democratic forces and Kurdish fighters and security forces into the ministers of defense and interior.
00:43They will be given as well military ranks as the government promised.
00:47As well for the Hasake, civil institutions as well will be also merged into official state structures.
00:54But the Kurds will be allowed to have a government from their own community.
01:00And for the first time as well, the agreement recognizes Kurdish national rights as such citizenship and language.
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