Arab Parliament rejects US recognition of Golan Heights

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Arab Parliament rejects US recognition of Golan Heights

The report described Monday's declaration as a violation of UN General Assembly resolutions and UN Security Council Resolution 242.

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Published: Tue 26 Mar 2019, 6:46 AM

Last updated: Tue 26 Mar 2019, 6:59 PM

Arab Parliament denounced US President Donald Trump's recognition of Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, a statement released by the Saudi Press Agency said early on Tuesday.
In a statement, Dr. Mishaal bin Fahm Al Salami, speaker of Arab Parliament, said the US illegal decision is completely rejected and condemned, null, has no legal grounds, and are unilateral measures to change a legally recognised situation, which is that the Syrian Golan Heights remain an occupied land.
The statement described the US decision as a flagrant violation of United Nations General Assembly resolutions and UN Security Council Resolution No. 242 of 1967, on withdrawal of Israel from the territories occupied, including the Golan.
Al Salami noted that such decision represents a "serious and unprecedented challenge" to the will of all countries of the world and is a confiscation of land by force.
He stressed that the United States has proved to be fully biased to the occupying power by its recent recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as the capital for the occupiers, and its recognition today of the sovereignty of over the occupied Syrian Golan.
 
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