Foreign Ministry: Enemy’s Aggression against Syria is Flagrant Defiance of Syrian Sovereignty and International Legitimacy

DAMASCUS- Foreign and Expatriates Ministry sent on Friday two letters to the UN Secretary General and President of Security Council on the Israeli aggression against Syrian Arab Republic in a flagrant defiance of the international legitimacy and UN resolutions and the sovereignty and the inviolability of the Syrian territory.

“The Israeli aggression this morning comes as a new Israeli attempt to boost the collapsed morale of terrorist groups after they were defeated recently by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in many areas,” the Ministry said in the letters, according to SANA.

 The Ministry added that Syria confirms that the pretexts and allegations made by Israel to justify the launching of such attacks are cheap diversionary attempts that been used every time Israel fails to justify the continuation of its illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan, the Palestinian territory and the rest of the occupied territories in southern Lebanon.

“Syria calls on the UN Secretary General and the President of the UNSC to condemn this Israeli blatant aggression and oblige Israel to stop supporting terrorism in Syria and to implement all UNSC resolutions on counter-terrorism, including resolution No. 2253, withdraw from the whole occupied Syrian Golan to the line of June 4th, 1967 and to implement resolution No. 497 for 1981.

Earlier, four Israeli warplanes violated the Syrian airspace and targeted a military site in the eastern countryside of Homs where the Syrian air defense downed one of the warplanes.