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SYRIA on Friday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s remark that Washington should recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, describing it as “irresponsible.’’
Syria “condemns, in the strongest terms, the irresponsible statements of Trump regarding the occupied Syrian Golan,’’ a Syrian foreign ministry source told state news agency SANA.
Trump’s remark on the territory that was taken from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, “affirms the blind bias of the U.S. to the Zionist occupation entity and its unlimited support for aggressive behaviour,’’ the source added.
Syria and Israel have fought several direct and proxy wars over the past decades and have never made a peace deal.
“After 52 years, it is time for the United States to fully recognise Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!’’ Trump tweeted on Thursday.
The move had been brewing for some time, with Israel pushing for the recognition and some members of Trump’s centre-right Republican Party backing the idea.
Israel annexed the Golan in 1981, though the move is not recognised internationally.
There are still some 20,000 Druze in the Golan, ethnic Arabs, who adhere to a minority faith, that is an offshoot of Islam and remain loyal to Syria.
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– Mar. 22, 2019 @ 12:30 GMT |
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