ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday said that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) poses a threat to security in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, urging the implementation of the March 10 agreement that would see the Kurdish-led force integrate with the Syrian military.

"The continued existence of any entity like the SDF organization would endanger the security of Iraq, Turkey, and Syria," Syrian state media quoted Sharaa as saying at the Concordia Summit, a global forum partnering governments, businesses, and NGOs to promote collaboration and international problem solving, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

"We have offered SDF integration into the Syrian army and assured them that Kurdish rights would be protected, but there was a delay in implementing what was agreed upon," the president continued, citing the agreement he signed with SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi on March 10 that would see the group and its institutions in northeast Syria integrate with the Syrian state.

Sharaa urged the prompt fulfillment of the agreement, with SANA quoting him as saying that "peaceful solutions should be reached and implemented quickly."

The SDF and the Damascus government have clashed repeatedly in recent times, with the integration agreement having faced delays as both sides accuse the other of provocations and attacks.

At least seven people were killed in artillery strikes on Saturday in Aleppo’s eastern Deir Hafer area in what the SDF called a "horrific massacre" perpetrated by "factions affiliated with the Syrian Interim Government and linked to the Turkish state."

Damascus on Sunday laid the blame on the SDF for the incident, with the Syrian defense ministry telling SANA that it "holds the SDF fully responsible for the massacre" and that it constituted "an attempt to villainize the Syrian Arab Army."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, accused "Syrian army personnel" of the bombardment, saying that five women and two children were killed. 

Sharaa earlier this month claimed that Arabs comprise more than 70 percent of northeast Syria’s population and that the SDF does not represent the views of all Syrian Kurds.

The Syrian president is set to address the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, marking the first such appearance at the gathering by a Syrian leader since 1967. The new government under Sharaa has vociferously worked to garner international credibility following the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad in December, with the high-profile event marking a seminal opportunity for Damascus to further its campaign to remove sanctions on the country and enhance its global status.

At the Concordia Summit, in the presence of former CIA Director David Petraeus, Sharaa said that there are "converging interests between Syria and the United States at this stage," calling again for the removal of the Assad-era US Caesar Act sanctions on Damascus.