CAIRO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 31st March, 2019) Saudi Arabia rejects any actions that violate Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud said on Sunday referring to the recent US decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over this territory.
"Saudi Arabia rejects any actions that affect the sovereignty of Syria over the Golan Heights," King Salman said at the opening of the 30th Arab League summit in Tunis.
On March 25, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The document, which has been widely regarded as way of propelling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election bid ahead of the April 9 parliamentary vote, has already been condemned by the international community.
The Golan Heights has been mostly under Israel's control since the country seized the territory during the 1967 Six Day War. While Israel adopted a law to annex the territory in 1981, the United Nations declared the move void, without any legal effects. In 2018, after Israel organized local elections in the area on October 30, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution urging Israel to immediately withdraw its forces from the territory.
