Syrian defense minister: The Golan will eventually be restored
Syria, Politics, 10/22/1999

Syrian Minister of Defense Lt. Gen. Mustafa Tlass has asserted that his country will restore the Golan "sooner or later."

In a speech he made on Wednesday on the occasion of the graduation of a new shift of cadets from the Air Force Academy, celebrations held on the 26th anniversary of the October liberation war, Tlass said that the Middle East peace process is passing a critical stage and that the stand of the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will decide the future of the Middle East peace process.

Tlass continued that the fate of the Middle East peace process is connected to the practical steps taken by the Israeli government. He called on the Israeli government to abide by the Middle East peace process' basics and to resume negotiations from the pointat which they broke off.

Tlass continued, "The one who speaks of peace and simultaneously continues its aggression in confiscating lands and building settlements and proceeds in its aggression against south Lebanon, just seek to achieve a settlement that suits its special strategy which ensures its hegemony and control over the Arab nation's potentials."

Tlass concluded by saying "Israel's dreams will not be fulfilled, because Damascus will not give up any of its territories under any Israeli forged claims," stressing that the Syrian territories will never be bargained.

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