'Israel's land-grab threat to peace'

Source: PressTV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=127193§ionid=351020202


The Organization of Islamic Conference says Israel's occupation of Syria's Golan Heights poses a threat to global security, report says.

The continued Israeli threats against Syria, meant to escalate regional tensions, are endangering global peace and security, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted a draft resolution of the international body's Thursday summit as saying.

Participating foreign ministers at the OIC in Dushanbe wrote in the resolution, "The OIC Ministerial Council asserts that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction, and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and has no legitimate or judicial value, and constitutes a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and its related resolutions and rules of international law," SANA reported.

The OIC's ministerial convention also slammed Israel for failing to abide by a 1981 UN Security Council resolution in which Tel Aviv was required to refrain from its "continued alteration" of the judicial, demographic, and civil features of the occupied Syrian territories.

The OIC members reiterated Syria's right to restore full sovereignty of the occupied Golan Heights, calling on Israel to withdraw fully to the pre-June 4, 1967 borders.

The participants also called on all countries not to supply Israel with any military, economic, financial, technical or human assistance that might prolong the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights, the report added.

They also called on the international community to help step up pressure against Israel and urge Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories of 1967.

In addition, the OIC's 37th session threw its weight behind the Palestinian Cause, naming it as the central cause for the Islamic Nation.