Recapturing Golan from Israel is a priority for Syria, says al-Jaafari

Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, has reiterated that the occupied Golan is an integral part of the Syrian Arab Republic’s territories, citing that recapturing Golan, until June 4th, 1967 line, with all means guaranteed by the international law, will remain a priority for Syria.

 

Addressing the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East via video, al-Jaafari said: “This year coincides with the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations noting that most of its resolutions and meetings have been allotted for the Palestinian cause and the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, including the occupied Syrian Golan, but this organization [UN] is under pressure by some permanent members at Security Council, and so has failed to put through its resolutions, relevant to ending the Israeli occupation of the Arab lands, into effect, particularly resolutions No. 242, 338 and 497.”

 

The Syrian diplomat asserted that the UN has failed to force the Israeli entity to end its occupation of Arab lands .

 He affirmed that the UN failure has encouraged some countries to try to disavow from their legal commitment, and seek to change facts, like the provocative actions of the US proclamations in announcing  occupied Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli occupation, then its proclamation about the occupied Syrian Golan.

 

Al-Jaafari renewed Syria’s stance, along with the majority of UN member states, to condemn those proclamations and consider them as a mere unilateral action that is issued by a side that has no political, moral or legal capacity to determine the destiny of the world peoples or to dispose lands which are part and parcel of Syria and Palestine.

 

He referred to the Israeli occupation’s recent missile attacks, on Syrian territories from over Lebanese territories, stressing that these attacks aim to raise the morale of the remaining terrorists in a flagrant violation of UN relevant resolutions and the disengagement agreement of 1974.

 

Basma Qaddour