GENEVA- Health Minister Dr. Nizar Yazigi said on Thursday that the health conditions of the Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan continue to deteriorate despite repeated calls by the Syrian government on the international organizations to pressure Israeli occupation authorities to improve their health conditions, according to SANA.

The minister was speaking during the 69th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) at the UN headquarters in Geneva in which the participants discussed health conditions in Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan.

In 1998, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personal friend Ronald Lauder made nine secret visits to Damascus and met the late President Hafez al-Assad and few officials to convey Netanyahu's will to establish peaceful relationships with Syria and to give back the Golan to Syria.

Lauder told the late President al-Assad that Netanyahu is interested in establishing peaceful relations with Syria and to withdraw from the Syrian Golan without defining the June 1967 lines. So, the late president explained to the Israeli visitor the difference between the 1923 lines and the 1967 lines.

UNITED NATIONS, (ST)- The International Security Council on Tuesday renewed its rejection to recognize the Israeli occupation's annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan, expressing concern over Israeli officials' remarks on perpetuating the occupation of Syrian lands.

AFP reported that the Security Council's 15 member states stressed that Golan status will remain unchanged.

NEW YORK, (ST)-The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli government's meeting in the occupied Syrian Golan.  

In a statement of which SANA got a copy on Saturday, the movement said the Israeli cabinet's provocative meeting in the occupied Golan and the remarks made by the Israeli prime minister on Golan violate international laws and the Security Council resolutions.

OCCUPIED GOLAN – The people of the occupied Syrian Golan emphasized that the Golan has always been and will forever be part of the Syrian land and that this truth is firm no matter how the Israeli occupation authorities try to show the opposite.

The emphasis came in a statement issued Sunday in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a cabinet meeting in the occupied Golan, according to SANA.