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The Syrian Foreign and Expatriate Ministry strongly condemned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to the Zionist settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan, describing it as a “provocative step and a flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty.”
An official source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said last night, Thursday, that “Syria condemns 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 Golan. occupied Syrian “.
The source noted that “Pompeo’s visit is a provocative step before the end of the Trump administration’s term and a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic.
He added: Syria confirms that such criminal visits encourage “Israel” to continue in its dangerous aggressive approach.
Damascus called on the United Nations and the international community to condemn Pompeo’s visit to Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan, which violates Security Council Resolution 497 and the international consensus that rejected “Israel’s” decision to annex the Golan.
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the occupied Syrian Golan Heights from the settlement of Psagot in the occupied West Bank, which the Trump administration acknowledged last year, in an unprecedented move by of a United States Secretary of State.