NAM’s Coordinating Bureau condemns Israel’s plan to build new settlements in occupied Syrian Golan
The Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has condemned in the strongest terms the provocative meeting of the Israeli entity’s government in the occupied Syrian Golan to announce a plan that aims at building two new settlements in order to increase the number of Israeli settlers in this part of Syrian land.
In a statement on Saturday, the Bureau said that the meeting and the provocative plan indicate a dangerous escalation that violates the international law and the relevant UN resolutions, particularly Resolution No. 497 of 1981.
It reaffirmed that that all the measures taken or to be taken by Israel, the occupying force, to change the legal, material and demographic status and structure of the occupied Syrian Golan, as well as all the Israeli procedures, that aim at implementing the occupation’s judicial authority and administration there, are null and void and of no legal effect.
The Bureau also reiterated NAM’s stance adopted in the final document of the 18th summit of NAM countries’ leaders, held in Baku in Azerbaijan on October 25 and 26, 2019, on the occupied Syrian Golan. The stance called on Israel to abide by the Security Council Resolution No. 497 for 1981 and to withdraw from occupied Golan to the June 4th 1967 line in accordance with Resolutions No. 242 and 338.
Syria has strongly condemned the unprecedented escalation by the Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied Syrian Golan and the serious violations committed by the occupation forces that mount to war crimes, affirming that the Golan is an integral part of the Syrian territory and that Syria is determined to completely restore it by all means.
Hamda Mustafa