Damascus Calls for Return of Occupied Golan Heights

Syrian government delegation leader Bashar Jaafari said that Damascus calls for return of occupied Golan Heights and back to the borders of June 1967.

GENEVA – The Syrian government delegation calls for the liberation of occupied Syrian territories, including the Golan Heights, Head of the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Syrian-Syrian dialogue in Geneva Bashar Jaafari said on Wednesday, disclosing proposals on the political settlement, the Russian Sputnik reported.

Jaafari, who submitted the proposals to Special UN Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, requested the envoy to discuss these proposals with opposition members involved in intra-Syrian negotiations underway in Geneva.

“Another point [of the Basic Proposals] is that we call through the Special Envoy on all of us, the government’s delegation and delegations of the oppositions, to engage into a clear-cut commitment to liberating our occupied territories — the Syrian occupied Golan [Heights], back to the borders of June 1967,” Jaafari said.

The Golan Heights is internationally recognized as the Syrian territory and the United Nations has repeatedly stated that Israel’s occupation of Golan Heights is illegal, and called for its return to Syria.