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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad: Return of Golan to Syria is non-negotiable
2009-08-02
Syrian President Bashar Assad said Saturday that the return of the Golan Heights from Israel was non-negotiable, and he expressed confidence that the strategic plateau captured four decades ago would be handed back.
You and whose army?
A year of indirect peace talks between the two countries ended in January, and the Syrian and Israeli leaders have laid out tough conditions for restarting talks.

Syria has said it is willing to resume the Turkish-mediated talks if they focus on a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Golan, captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is not willing to cede the territory Syria wants. "The return of all conqured occupied land ... is non-negotiable," Assad said in a speech marking Syria's Army Day. "The Syrian Arab Golan will remain Arab ... and will fully return to the nation."

"Occupation and peace are two contradictory matters," he said, adding that Syria seeks a just and comprehensive peace.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Assad further threatened to lose war after war until Syria gets what it wants.
Posted by: Odysseus   2009-08-02 10:15  

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