Syria’s president says he could consider “long-term negotiations” with Israel on the occupied Golan Heights if Israel agrees to withdraw from recently occupied Syrian territory.
– Israel had seized most of this plateau from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and then annexed the areas under its control – a move not recognised by the UN or most of the international community. In December 2024, Israel sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights.
– Al-Sharaa said Syria wanted “either to establish new rules that would reactivate the disengagement agreement or conclude a new agreement”.
– “If we reach an agreement, we could enter into long-term negotiations to resolve the issue of the occupied Golan,” the Syrian president told a diplomatic forum in the Turkish city of Antalya.
– “Israel is violating the 1974 disengagement agreement, and today we are working to reach a security agreement that will guarantee its withdrawal from the territories it occupied after the fall of the [al-Assad] regime and its return to the 1974 lines.”
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