Thwart Israeli hegemony over Golan, says Kuwait

Al-Saqobi slams Netanyahu’s statement

JEDDAH, April 26, (KUNA): Kuwait on Tuesday urged the UNSC and the international community to thwart Israeli attempts at changing the legal and demographic status of occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

At an extraordinary meeting of the executive council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Kuwait’s permanent representative to OIC and General Consul in Jeddah, Saleh Al-Saqobi, indicated in the meeting OIC’s rejection and repudiation of the step taken by the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold a cabinet meeting in occupied Golan Heights.

Al-Saqobi slammed Netanyahu’s statement that “Israel will not withdraw from Golan Heights and that the latter will stay under its control forever.” The Kuwaiti official underscored that the Golan Heights are occupied Syrian land in line with resolutions taken to that effect by the UN, the Arab League, and OIC.

He said Kuwait affirms the need to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention for 1949 to protect the Syrians in the Golan Heights from Israeli aggression and maltreatment.

On the question of Palestine, he said the meeting today reiterated the obligation of the international community to save the peace talks from falling further behind and to thwart the construction of more Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

He stressed that Kuwait would spare no efforts to work with members of the OIC to ensure a just peace in Palestine and to allow the Syrian people to exercise their right to their land in the Golan Heights.