The United Nations General Assembly renews its demand for the Israeli occupation entity to fully withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan

New York-Sana

The United Nations General Assembly voted by 142 votes in favor of a resolution requiring the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation entity from the entire occupied Syrian Golan to the line of June 4, 1967, in implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions.

This came during the General Assembly's adoption of the resolution entitled “The Occupied Syrian Golan”, which was presented to it today and voted on by the member states with a majority of “142” states with “19” abstentions, and the rejection of the Israeli occupation entity and the United States, as the member states reaffirmed the basic principle that the lands of others cannot be acquired. By force, in accordance with international law, the United Nations Charter, and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 relating to the protection of civilians in times of war on the occupied Syrian Golan.

Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, confirmed in his speech that the member states ’vote in favor of draft resolutions related to each of the 52 and 53 clauses, including the resolution entitled“ The Syrian Golan ”, sent two unambiguous messages to“ Israel ”, the occupying power. To end its occupation of the occupied Arab lands in the occupied Syrian Golan and Palestine, and to stop its violations of the Geneva Convention, especially settlement activities, theft of natural resources, confiscation of lands, and the expulsion of our people in the Golan from their lands.

Al-Jaafari pointed out that the other important message is directed by the international community to anyone trying to impart unilateral legitimacy to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Golan.

Al-Jaafari reiterated Syria's condemnation in the strongest terms the US President Donald Trump's decision on the occupied Syrian Golan, stressing that it is illegal and immoral and represents a flagrant violation of international law, the United Nations Charter and the relevant international organization resolutions, foremost of which is Resolution 497 of 1981.

Al-Jaafari added: “The Syrian government considers that the paper that President Trump signed on March 25, 2019 and gave it to the Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation entity, Benjamin Netanyahu, is merely a unilateral act issued by a party that does not have the capacity, political, legal, or moral capacity to decide the fate of the peoples of the world or to act. With lands that are an integral part of the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic, ”stressing that any unilateral measures against the occupied Golan are null and void and have no legal effect.

Al-Jaafari considered that it was free for the United States of America, being a "permanent member state" in the UN Security Council and hosting the United Nations headquarters, to establish a legitimate international coalition to establish peace, end the Israeli occupation, and return the occupied Arab lands to their legitimate owners, including the return of the occupied Syrian Golan to its motherland, Syria, and the establishment of The Palestinian state and its capital, Jerusalem, instead of establishing an illegal alliance to sponsor terrorism, exercise aggression, support "separatist militias", entrench the occupation and steal Syrian oil.

Al-Jaafari pointed out that the United States was not satisfied with supporting "Israel" militarily and politically in its wars and aggression in the region and in protecting it from any accountability for its crimes in the Security Council for decades, but bypassing all the regimes in place in civilized relations between countries through, for example, but not limited to, the declaration. Jerusalem is the capital of "Israel" and defending its right to establish settlements on the lands it occupies, on the pretext that this does not contradict international law, leading to the so-called "deal of the century", which will further destabilize security and stability in our already troubled region.