CAIRO, Egypt, March 26 (NNN-MENA) – Arab League Secretary General, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, condemned U.S. President, Donald Trump’s recognition of the Syrian Golan Heights as Israeli territory.
Aboul-Gheit said that, this proclamation is void and a blatant violation of international law.
“The U.S. declaration will not change the legal status of the Golan Heights, as an occupied Syrian territory,” he stressed, adding that, “legitimising the occupation is a new approach in the U.S. foreign policy.”
He affirmed that the Arab League rejects this approach and backs the Syrian right to retrieve its occupied lands.
Israel seized the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in the 1980’s, in a move never recognised by the international community.
Recognising Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights has been a recent demand by Netanyahu, which comes months after the Trump administration moved the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.– NNN-MENA
