What is profoundly not in the interest of everything positive we see happening in Syria would be a conflict. And we’ve worked very hard to make sure that that doesn’t happen, we’ll continue to do that.

Axar.az reports that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated this during a joint press conference with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot in Paris when he was asked about Turkiye's potential military operation against Kurdish fighters in Syria.

"So we’ve been working very closely as well with our ally, our partner, in Turkiye – which has very legitimate concerns of course about the PKK and about terrorism – to navigate this transition, to navigate it in a way that I think leads to a resolution of many of those concerns, including over time with the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into Syrian national forces, including with the departure of foreign members of that force to their own countries, including with a resolution of questions around oil, around borders, et cetera, but that’s a process that’s going to take some time," he added.