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22Mar19

Trump's statement on Golan Heights may destabilize Middle East, warns Kremlin

US President Donald Trump's statement Washington should recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights may destabilize the situation in the Middle East, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Friday.

"Such calls may considerably destabilize the already strained situation in the Middle East," he said. "In any case the idea as such by no means works for the tasks and goals of the Middle East settlement. It's the other way round."

"At the moment it's just a call. May it remain so," Peskov added.

Earlier, Trump tweeted that the US should recognize Israel's full sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 21 March 2019

This plateau, which belonged to Syria since 1944 were seized by Israel during the six-day war in 1967. In 1981, the Israeli parliament passed a law to unilaterally declare sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The UN Security Council declared the annexation null and void in its Resolution 497 of December 17, 1981.

[Source: Itar Tass, Moscow, 22Mar19]
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