Syria is ready to return its troops to the Golan Heights on the basis of an agreement of 1974.
The new Syrian leadership during negotiations with Deputy Secretary General of the UN for peaceful operations Jean-Pierrea Lacroix on Wednesday appealed to Israel to withdraw his troops from the territory of the Golan Heights, where they penetrated after the fall of the Syrian President Bashar Assad regime. Informs TASR according to AFP report.
“If the Israeli forces are immediately withdrawn”, Syria is ready to deploy its troops on the Golan Heights by the 1974 Golan Heights, on the basis of which the buffer zone was created.
Syrian soldiers of Assad’s government left their positions in South Syria before the rebels entered Damascus. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that there was a vacuum on the border with Israel and therefore decided to send his units to the demilitarized zone.
The United Nations considers the entry of Israel into the territory of Syria as a violation of the Agreement
The United Nations considers the entry of Israel into Syria as a violation of the 1974 agreement. Lacroix met with Syrian foreign ministers and defense on Wednesday. Sana reported that ministers “confirmed the readiness of Syria to cooperate with the UN”.
Most of the Golan heights were occupied by Israel during the Arab-Israeli War in 1967 and subsequently the territory annexed the territory in 1981. It was created by the UN in order to separate the Israeli and Syrian troops.
Israeli Defense Minister Jisrael Kac announced on Tuesday that the Israeli troops would remain indefinitely in order to protect the inhabitants of the Golan Heights, the north of Israel and elsewhere in the state. “We will not allow enemy units to settle in the security zone in the south of Syria,” Kac added.
