UN Security Council to meet on Golan at Syria’s request

27 March 2019, 4:40 pm

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The UN Security Council will convene a session tonight to discuss the US recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights following a request by Syria.

The public discussion set for later this evening will also discuss the activities of the UN Disengagement Observer Force, the peacekeeping force deployed between Israel and Syria in the Golan.

Illustrative: Members of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) are seen near an IDF soldier in the Israeli Golan Heights near the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria, on August 30, 2014. (Flash90)

Yesterday, the Syrian mission to the United Nations asked the council presidency, held by France, to schedule an urgent meeting to “discuss the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan and the recent flagrant violation of the relevant Security Council’s resolution by a permanent member-state.”