Israel is Attempting to use the Syrian Conflict to Annex Syria’s Golan
The Foreign and
Expatriates Ministry on Wednesday sent two identical letters to the UN
Secretary General and the President of the UN Security Council saying
that on January 31st , 2014 while visiting the occupied Syrian Golan,
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman made statements which embody
an insolent approach to the events in Syria and recklessness with the
relevant UN resolutions on ending the Israeli occupation of the Syrian
Golan and all occupied Arab lands since 1967.
During the visit,
Liberman called for “settling the Israeli sovereignty in the Golan
Heights in the framework of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the
events in Syria,” saying “part of this comprehensive bargain has to
cover an understanding between Israel, the international community and
the US stating that Golan is part and parcel of Israel.”
He claimed that “the
security dangers linked to our capability to defend north of the country
requires a recognition of Israel’s sovereignty of the Golan Heights by
the international community.”
“It seems that
Israel, an authority existing through occupation, didn’t stop at
involving in supporting the armed terrorist groups in Syria, but
mistakenly believes it can exploit its backing to a terrorist war on
Syria to achieve its expansionist dreams and try to legitimatize its
occupation of the Syrian Golan, turning a blind eye to all international
relevant resolutions on ending the Israeli occupation of the Syrian
Golan including resolution No. 497 of 1981,” the letter said.
It added that those
statements the requirement to remind Israel that the UN Security Council
has affirmed in Resolution No. 497 of 1981 that the Israeli decision
issued on December 14th, 1981 to impose its laws, administrative and
judicial custody on the occupied Syrian Golan is null and void and has
no legal value, a stance to which the UN General Assembly has annually
affirmed via its resolutions, the latest of which No. 84/68 states that
Israel, until now, did not abide by UN Security Council resolution No.
497 of 1981 and that Israel ‘s decision issued on December 14th, 1981 is
null and void.
The General Assembly,
in the 5th item of the same resolution, also called on Israel to
withdraw from the whole occupied Syrian Golan to the June 4th, 1967
line.
The Foreign Ministry
said that after the 47 years which have passed on Israel’s occupation of
the Syrian Golan and the international community’s adoption of hundreds
of resolutions which call for the end of this occupation and the stop
of its inhuman and racial policies as well as the acts of killing
against civilians in the occupied Arab lands, Israel still turns a blind
eye to all international resolutions. Furthermore, Liberman’s
statement indicates an escalation of Israel’s recklessness disregard for
the resolutions of the UN Security Council and the UN General
Assembly.
“The government of
the Syrian Arab Republic, while draws the attention of the UN Secretary
General and the US Security Council President to the dangers of such
statements and the accompanying Israeli hostile practices, calls on the
UN, particularly the Security Council to take the necessary procedures
to guarantee the respect for its resolutions and oblige Israel to end
its occupation of the Syrian Golan and withdraw from it into the line of
June 4th, 1967,” the Ministry said.
It added that Syria
renews the assertion that the continuous dealing of the UN with the
Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan is routine without any serious
move to enforce the Security Council’s resolutions, which encourages
this illegal situation to continue in our region and undermine the
credibility of the UN organization.
The Ministry called
for issuing this letter as an official document of the Security Council
and General Assembly under the two agenda items of 35 and 52.
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