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Syria condemned in the strongest terms the visit of the Secretary of State of the United States of America, Mike Pompeo, to the Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan. An official source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said today in a statement to SANA that the government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the visit of the Secretary of State of the United States of America, Mike Pompeo, to the settlements Israelis in the occupied Syrian Golan, in a provocative step leading up to the end of the Trump administration’s term and considers it a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic. At a time when this visit coincides with the repeated attacks by the Israeli occupying forces against Syria, the latest of which was the aggression it launched on 11/17/2020.
The source added that Syria claims that such criminal visits encourage the continuation of the Israeli entity in its dangerous aggressive approach, which would not have been possible without the unlimited and continuous support provided by the US administration in particular and the immunity from liability provided. and imposed by these countries. The source added that Syria calls on the United Nations and the international community to condemn this visit, which violates UN resolutions, including Security Council Resolution 497 and the international consensus that rejected the Israeli entity’s decision to annex the Golan Heights, and the decision of the United States to recognize this annexation and renews its demand that the Israeli entity stop changing the physical character and composition. The demographic, institutional structure and the legal situation of the occupied Syrian Golan, in particular, to stop establishing illegal settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan.
The source said Syria strongly condemns the US official’s visit to Israeli settlements in the West Bank and his classification of the settlement exports as Israeli goods.
The source concluded by saying that Syria once again calls on the Security Council to assume its responsibilities under the United Nations Charter, the most important of which is the maintenance of international peace and security, and to take action. firm and immediate to avoid the repetition of such provocative visits by US administration officials, since they constitute a flagrant violation of the provisions of international law and the Geneva Conventions that prohibit and impose visits to the occupied territories. The Israeli entity must put an end to its flagrant violations of the Charter of the United Nations and the provisions of international law and respect the resolutions of international legitimacy, especially Resolutions 242, 338, 350 and 497 of the Security Council, which demand the withdrawal Israeli from the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of June 4, 1967.
Source: Sana Agency
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