UNITED NATIONS, March 23 (NNN-SANA) – Syrian envoy to the UN, said that, the Syrian Golan will always remain an Arab Syrian territory, reacting to U.S. President, Donald Trump’s surprise tweet that the United States would recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
“The statement made by the American President and his administration, regarding the occupied Syrian Golan, and the visits of individuals who claim their representation of the American people, will never change the fact that the Syrian Golan was, and will always remain, an Arab Syrian territory,” Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, told reporters at the UN headquarters.
“The Syrian people are more resolute and determined than ever, to liberate this precious part of the Syrian territory by all means, and regain Syrian sovereignty right over it,” he added.
Trump has overturned decades of U.S. policy, by saying that it was time to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.
Trump said that the plateau was of “critical strategic and security importance to Israel.”
“The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemns this irresponsible statement, on the legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan,” the Syrian ambassador said.– NNN-SANA
