Syria calls on Security Council to put an end to the violations of the Israeli occupation against the people of occupied Golan

New York, (ST) – Syria called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities and pressure the Israeli occupation to stop its violations and illegal practices against the people of the occupied Syrian Golan. It stressed that, the Golan is inevitably returning to the homeland, sooner or later and that all the measures taken by the occupation have no legal effect.

 In a statement to the Security Council during a session on the situation in the Middle East, Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh stressed Syria’s firm adherence to its right to restore the entire occupied Golan.

“Syria stressed that, all measures taken by “Israel” to change the Golan land’s natural and demographic features have no legal effect under international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, especially Security Council Resolution No. 497 of 1981”, Sabbagh added.

Sabbagh indicated that the crime of the occupation assassinating the Syrian fighter, Medhat Al-Saleh, by the Israeli occupation last Saturday represents a flagrant violation of the 1974 Agreement on the  disengagement Forces and United Nations’ resolutions related to the occupied Syrian Golan in addition to the hostile statements of Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation entity about increasing settlements.

Sabbagh affirmed that, all these crimes, aggressive practices and provocative statements of Israeli occupation will not change the fact that, the Golan was and will remain Arab and Syrian and that it will inevitably return to the homeland, sooner or later.

He expressed Syria’s regret that the reports of the United Nations General Secretariat continued to ignore the systematic Israeli practices and violations against the people in the occupied Golan.

He stressed that Syria calls on the United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Tor Wencesland, to give the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan the necessary attention in accordance with his mandate, and to include in his reports in detail the violations and practices of the Israeli occupation authorities against our people in the Golan.

Sabbagh stressed that the Palestinian cause is the central national issue of Syria, and Syria has not and will not spare any effort to stand by the brotherly Palestinian people in their struggle to restore their occupied lands and their legitimate rights, especially their right to establish their independent state on their land with Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital.

Sabbagh stressed the need not to remain silent about the war crimes and crimes against humanity that Israel continues to commit in the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular the acts of annexation, settlement, siege, house seizure and demolition, forced displacement of Palestinians, practices of arbitrary detention and racial discrimination against them. He called for pressure on Israel to stop its criminal practices against the Palestinian people.

Sabbagh reiterated Syria’s firm position that any decisions or measures that do not comply with the relevant United Nations resolutions and do not preserve the established Palestinian rights are rejected in form and content and have no legal effect. He also affirmed that, the humanitarian situation of the Palestinian people need to provide full support for the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA),“to be able respond to the growing humanitarian needs of the Palestinians.

Raghda Sawas