ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria on Sunday criticized the newly-formed Syrian transitional cabinet for not reflecting the country’s diversity, stating that they will not be adhering to the decisions and directives issued by such a government.

Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced late Saturday the formation of a new Syrian transitional government. The new cabinet sees the appointment of key Sharaa allies and opponents to ousted former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to crucial positions.

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) said in a statement that the announced cabinet “largely resembles” that of the previous regime, citing it failure to take Syria’s diversity into consideration, maintaining one-party rule, and “failing to provide fair and genuine representation” for all the ethnic and religious components.

“This completely contradicts the goals for which the Syrians rose up in their revolution and the change they aspire to… any government that does not reflect the diversity and pluralism present in Syria will not be able to properly govern the country and extricate it from the crisis it is suffering from,” read the statement.

“We will not be concerned with implementing and executing the decisions issued by it,” said AANES, reiterating demands for a democratic and decentralized Syria and an end to policies of exclusion and marginalization.

The new Syrian cabinet only includes one Kurdish minister: Mohammed Abdulrahman Turko, from Afrin, has been named the country’s new education minister.

Kurdish authorities in Syria have repeatedly criticized Damascus for the lack of inclusion of other ethnic and religious groups in the transitional process, as efforts to unify the position of Kurdish parties in the country and present a united front in talks with the new administration in Damascus continue.