Al-Miqdad: Presence of peacekeeping forces is not an alternative for reaching a final solution to occupation’s problems

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faisal Al-Miqdad, has stressed the importance of the commitment  of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force ( UNDOF) to their mandate stipulated by the UN security council’s relevant resolution،

 

Al-Miqdad’s remarks came during his meeting on Tuesday with Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, and Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Mohamed Khaled Al-Khiari. 

 

He said that the presence of the peacekeeping forces is not an alternative for reaching a final solution to the problems of the occupation, stressing Syria’s firm right in restoring the occupied Syrian Golan to the motherland.

 

Al-Miqdad referred to the Syrian government’s firm stance in regard to providing support to the work of the UNDOF to fully implement the mandate entrusted to it, particularly monitoring the disengagement, as well as uncovering the Israeli violations of the Agreement on Disengagement, represented by its repeated attacks on Syrian sovereignty, according to SANA.

 

He reiterated his condemnation of the recent statements by the US administration, which ignore the UN resolutions that recognize the Golan as an occupied Syrian Arab land.

 

For his part, Lacroix praised the Syrian state’s support for the peacekeeping forces. 

 

While Al- Khiari spoke about the role of the peacekeeping forces in achieving stability in parallel with working on  reaching a just solution to the conflict. 

 

Basma Qaddour