25 February 2011 - 20:30

The United Nations Secretariat-General expressed concern over a new campaign to encourage additional Israeli settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan.

New York (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The United Nations Secretariat-General expressed concern over a new campaign to encourage additional Israeli settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan.

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry, in his regular monthly briefing to the Council on the Middle East on Friday, unveiled that the new Israeli campaign aims at bringing more settlers to the occupied Syrian Golan.

Serry said tackling the conflict between Syria and Israel on the basis of US Security Council relevant resolutions would be in favor of the regional stability and the achievement of Arab peace initiative.

He also touched upon the situation in Lebanon and the continuation of the Israeli daily violations of Lebanese airspace. Serry considered the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories as dangerous, saying the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations remained at a standstill.

Representatives of UN Security Council's member states, in their statements,showed opposition to the Israeli settlement policies in the West Bank, Jerusalem and in the Syrian Golan, underlining the importance of achieving the inter-Palestinian reconciliation.

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