Alwaght-Syria has warned the Israeli regime that all options remain on the table for liberating the strategic Golan Heights that have been under Israeli occupation for more than five decades.
The stern warning was delivered by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem on Thursday during a joint presser with his Venezuelan counterpart, Jorge Arreaza, in the capital, Damascus, the official SANA news agency reported.
He stressed that Syria’s right in the occupied Syrian Golan is firm and can’t be disclaimed by time lapse and every inch of the occupied Syrian territories will be liberated whether in the south or in the north.
Al-Moallem said that the US President Donald Trump’s decision on occupied Syrian Golan has a single effect as it only enhanced the US isolation, adding “our right in the occupied Syrian Golan is firm and can’t be disclaimed by time lapse and every inch of the occupied Syrian territories will be liberated.”
He further blasted the US for becoming the sole country in the world to recognize Syria's Golan Heights as "Israeli territory" last month, in a move that marked a break from decades of US foreign policy on the occupied Syrian land and flew in the face of UN resolutions.
“Syria will liberate the occupied Golan by all means and all options are on the table,” al-Moallem affirmed.
Syria slams Arab League stance on Golan
The top Syrian diplomat further criticized the Arab League from failing to adopt a firm stance on Washington's contentious U-turn on Golan at its recent summit in Tunisia.
“Is it possible that the Arab Summit issues a statement on the occupied Syrian Golan which is weaker than Britain’s stance?”
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the closing stages of its 1967 Six-Day War with Arab countries, which also saw the regime occupy the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem al-Quds and the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 in a move not recognized internationally.
War on terror not over
Elsewhere al-Moallem pointed out that the war against terrorism has not finished yet as the country is facing now a new-old form of war which is the economic war; he showed confidence that the Syrian people will overcome it.
Elsewhere, Muallem said, despite the many gains the Syrian army -- backed by Iran and Russia -- has made on the battlefield against terrorists, “Our war on terrorism hasn’t stopped and the conspiracy against us is continued through the military assault and the economic siege with the aim of prolonging the crisis in Syria in the interest of ‘Israel’.”
He further dismissed as mere lies President Donald Trump's claims that the US would withdraw its military forces from Syria in the coming months.
“The US administration lies with regard to pulling out its troops, which are illegitimately deployed in Syria, and it isn’t our duty to teach them to be honest,” Muallem said.
Venezuela, Syria facing US imperialism
Arreaza, in turn, hailed the Venezuelan and Syrian nations for standing firm in the face of "imperialism" and "US conspiracies."
“I agree with Minister al-Muallem that the US conspiracy targeting our countries is one," said the top Venezuelan diplomat.
"Venezuela will benefit from Syria’s experience in the war against terrorism [and] in facing the US conspiracy," said Arreaza, adding that there are states at the Security Council that are in cahoots with the US in its attempts to destabilize Venezuela.
