European leaders took note on Thursday 17 October of the announcement of a break in fighting in northeastern Syria to allow the Americans to extract Kurdish YPG forces. However, the President of the European Council considered this to be insufficient (see EUROPE B12351A3).
“The so-called ceasefire is not what we expected. In fact, it is not a ceasefire, but a demand of capitulation of the Kurds”, he regretted at the end of the European Council on 18 October. “We must be consistent...