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UN rejects Israel's claim over Syria's Golan Heights
April 27, 2016 at 09:55
Security Council says status of the Golan will not change after Netanyahu vows it will remain part of Israeli territory.
The UN Security Council has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that the annexed Golan Heights in Syria would "forever" remain under Israeli control. The 15-member council agreed on Tuesday that the status of the Golan, which Israel seized f-rom Syria in 1967, "remains unchanged," Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi, who holds this month's council presidency said. Liu recalled a 1981 resolution which states that Israel's "decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights was nul and void and without any international legal effect." Liu said that the Council members "expressed deep concern" over Netanyahu's remarks f-rom earlier this ...
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