Non-Aligned Movement calls for ending Israeli aggression in occupied Palestine, Lebanon and Syria

The foreign ministers of the member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called for ending the Israeli occupation aggression against Palestine, Lebanon and Syrian territory, and urged pressure on Israel to implement relevant Security Council resolutions and fully withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

This position was announced in a political declaration adopted during the ministerial meeting of the Movement, held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, under the title: “Protection of civilians in armed conflicts, position and solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

The declaration condemned all measures taken by Israel occupation to change the legal, natural and demographic status of the occupied Syrian Golan, and its continued efforts to build and expand settlements throughout the occupied Palestinian territory and in the occupied Syrian Golan.

The Foreign Ministers also called for Israel to be forced to implement the relevant Security Council resolutions and to fully withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of June 4, 1967.

They considered the repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory as a clear aggression against the territory of a sovereign State, and a flagrant violation of the provisions of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.

The ministers and heads of delegations of the Non-Aligned Movement affirmed their solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the genocide committed by “Israel”, and expressed their support for their inalienable rights to establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

During the meeting, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Qusay Al-Dahhak , reaffirmed Syria’s support for the brotherly peoples of Palestine and Lebanon in their confrontation the Israeli murder machine.

He stressed the need to intensify efforts to stop the repeated Israeli acts of aggression on Syrian lands and countries in the region.