EU, Syria reject Trump's statement on Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights
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3/22/19
3/21/19
US - Israeli relations: Trump courting Jewish voters with suggestion US should recognize Golan Heights as Israeli territory
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Note EU- Digest: Obviously this statement by Trump in support of Israel "re recognition by US that the Golan heights in Syria are part of Israeli territory" is made to get support from the Israeli lobby in the US for Trump's reelection in 2020.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47657843
3/6/13
UN peacekeepers detained by armed fighters in Golan
Around 20 UN peacekeepers have been detained by armed fighters in the Golan Heights, on the Syria-Israel border, the UN said on Wednesday. A UN team is on its way to resolve the situation.
The U.N. Security Council demanded their immediate and unconditional release.
The capture of the peacekeepers marked a new escalation in the spillover of Syria’s civil war, now entering its third year. It followed the Feb. 25 announcement that a member of the peacekeeping force, known as UNDOF, was unaccounted for. The U.N. said the peacekeeping member, who has not been identified, is still missing.
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current Security Council president, said talks are under way between U.N. officials from the peacekeeping force, known as UNDOF, and the captors.
U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous, who briefed the council behind closed doors, identified the captors as being from a group associated with the Syrian armed opposition, Churkin said.
“There was no fighting, according to his briefing to us,” Churkin said. “My understanding is that they took over the trucks in which the UNDOF personnel was moving around.”
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said about 20 U.N. observers were on a regular supply mission when they were stopped by approximately 30 armed fighters near an observation post that was damaged in heavy combat last weekend and had been evacuated.
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The U.N. Security Council demanded their immediate and unconditional release.
The capture of the peacekeepers marked a new escalation in the spillover of Syria’s civil war, now entering its third year. It followed the Feb. 25 announcement that a member of the peacekeeping force, known as UNDOF, was unaccounted for. The U.N. said the peacekeeping member, who has not been identified, is still missing.
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current Security Council president, said talks are under way between U.N. officials from the peacekeeping force, known as UNDOF, and the captors.
U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous, who briefed the council behind closed doors, identified the captors as being from a group associated with the Syrian armed opposition, Churkin said.
“There was no fighting, according to his briefing to us,” Churkin said. “My understanding is that they took over the trucks in which the UNDOF personnel was moving around.”
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said about 20 U.N. observers were on a regular supply mission when they were stopped by approximately 30 armed fighters near an observation post that was damaged in heavy combat last weekend and had been evacuated.
3/15/07
Ya Libnan: Solana: EU backs Syria's goal to regain Golan Heights
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Solana: EU backs Syria's goal to regain Golan Heights
Beirut & Damascus- The European Union supports Syria's goal of regaining the occupied Golan Heights from Israel, the EU foreign policy chief said after meeting President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday.
"We would like to work as much as possible to see your country Syria recuperate the territory taken in 1967," Javier Solana told a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem. Syria has made it clear that its cooperation to help end violence in Iraq was tied to Western, especially U.S., backing for its peaceful campaign to regain the Golan Heights, which Israel occupied during the Middle East war four decades ago.
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