Strong resolution on Golan to be submitted at Arab summit in Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Arab countries will take a strong position with regard to the decision made by US President Donald Trump on the recognition of Israel for the Golan plateau, an official told PANA here Friday.
At a news conference held at the end of the preparatory meeting of the council of Arab ministers of foreign affairs, Mahmoud Khemiri, spokesperson for the Arab summit due in Tunis on Sunday, said said a “strong resolution” would be submitted to Arab leaders on the issue.
According to him, the document which was the object of long discussions, condemned the US decision he described as “null and void”.
He said the initiative of the head of the White House “does not have any legal basis and breaks the UN Charter and the Security resolutions” which rejects the occupation of territories by force.
The spokesperson also said the resolution included “a commitment of Arab countries to preserve Syria’s territorial integrity”.
It also set mechanisms of action for some powerful countries, particularly those of the European Union, Russia and China to support the Arab position.
Meanwhile, the resolution reaffirmed “the strategic Arab choice for peace and settlement forecasting the establishment of two States” (one Israeli and another Palestinian).
The Syrian Golan height was occupied by Israel during the war in 1967, then annexed by Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in 1981, without international recognition.
In an interview with TV channel Al Arabia, Tunisian President Béji Caïd Essebsi said the decree issued by President Trump on the recognition of the Israeli sovereignty on Golan “only engages the one who signed it, even though it is the president of the first world power”.
In another development, Arab countries agreed to provide the Palestinian authority 100 million dollars in aid every month to enable them to face the difficulties from the freezing by Israel of the fiscal royalties that usually come to it and the contribution of the United States to the UN office for refugees.
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