Russia, Iran and Turkey issue joint statement condemning Israeli strikes in Syria

The presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey condemn “destabilizing” Israeli airstrikes in Syria.

In a joint statement put out after a video conference between the three, Russia’s Putin, Iran’s Rouhani and Turkey’s Erdogan say that they “reaffirmed the necessity to respect universally recognized international legal decisions, including those provisions of the relevant UN resolutions rejecting the occupation of Syrian Golan, first and foremost UN Security Council Resolution 497 and thus condemned the decision of the US Administration on the occupied Syrian Golan, which constitutes a grave violation of international law and threatens regional peace and security.”

The document says that Putin, Rouhani and Erdogan “consider Israeli military attacks in Syria as destabilizing and violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of this country and intensifying the tension in the region,” according to Russia’s TASS news agency.