NAM Demands Zionist Regime Withdraw From Golan
DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – The 120 member-strong Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has issued a political declaration demanding the Zionist regime withdraw from occupied Syrian territories in the Golan Heights.
In a statement after a virtual ministerial meeting, the NAM said its members "condemn all measures taken by Israel to change the legal, physical and demographic status of the Occupied Syrian Golan, and demand once again that Israel should abide by the United Nations Security council resolution 497 (1981), and to withdraw fully from the Occupied Syrian Golan to the borders of 4 June 1967, in the implementation of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973).”
In addition, the NAM reiterated that "a just, lasting solution to the question of Palestine in all its aspects must remain its priority and also a permanent responsibility of the United Nations until it is satisfactorily resolved in all aspects in accordance with international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions.”
The group of nations also reaffirmed the need to "respect the territorial integrity, sovereignty, the sovereign equality, political independence and inviolability of international borders of other states,” and to refrain from intervention in other countries’ internal affairs.
Established in 1961, the NAM consists of 120 member nations, with most countries in the Middle East and Africa, plus much of Latin America and Asia and several post-Soviet republics among its members. China, Mexico, Brazil and more than a dozen other countries serve as observers.
The Trump administration formally recognized the Zionist regime’s "sovereignty” over the Golan Heights in March 2019. Dozens of countries, including the U.S.’s European allies, condemned the decision. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called it a "conscious, deliberate demonstration of lawlessness.”
The Zionist regime occupied the Golan Heights in June 1967 after launching an air strike against Egyptian airfields and thereby starting the Six Day War against a coalition of Arab states. In 1981, the occupying regime annexed the territory, but the decision was not recognized by the Security Council.
In December 1981, the Security Council unanimously declared that the Zionist regime’s move was "null and void”.
Damascus has repeatedly stressed that it would never give up its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and has warned that it has the right under international law to regain its territories using any means necessary.
Along with the Golan Heights, the Zionist regime continues to occupy a 22 sq km strip of Lebanese territory known as Shebaa Farms, as well as the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds and the Gaza Strip.
In a statement after a virtual ministerial meeting, the NAM said its members "condemn all measures taken by Israel to change the legal, physical and demographic status of the Occupied Syrian Golan, and demand once again that Israel should abide by the United Nations Security council resolution 497 (1981), and to withdraw fully from the Occupied Syrian Golan to the borders of 4 June 1967, in the implementation of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973).”
In addition, the NAM reiterated that "a just, lasting solution to the question of Palestine in all its aspects must remain its priority and also a permanent responsibility of the United Nations until it is satisfactorily resolved in all aspects in accordance with international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions.”
The group of nations also reaffirmed the need to "respect the territorial integrity, sovereignty, the sovereign equality, political independence and inviolability of international borders of other states,” and to refrain from intervention in other countries’ internal affairs.
Established in 1961, the NAM consists of 120 member nations, with most countries in the Middle East and Africa, plus much of Latin America and Asia and several post-Soviet republics among its members. China, Mexico, Brazil and more than a dozen other countries serve as observers.
The Trump administration formally recognized the Zionist regime’s "sovereignty” over the Golan Heights in March 2019. Dozens of countries, including the U.S.’s European allies, condemned the decision. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called it a "conscious, deliberate demonstration of lawlessness.”
The Zionist regime occupied the Golan Heights in June 1967 after launching an air strike against Egyptian airfields and thereby starting the Six Day War against a coalition of Arab states. In 1981, the occupying regime annexed the territory, but the decision was not recognized by the Security Council.
In December 1981, the Security Council unanimously declared that the Zionist regime’s move was "null and void”.
Damascus has repeatedly stressed that it would never give up its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and has warned that it has the right under international law to regain its territories using any means necessary.
Along with the Golan Heights, the Zionist regime continues to occupy a 22 sq km strip of Lebanese territory known as Shebaa Farms, as well as the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds and the Gaza Strip.