Damascus urges the UN security council to halt the Israeli aggressions

Syria has called on the UN secretary general Kofi Annan and the UN security council to work for halting the Israeli aggressive practices in the occupied Syrian Golan heights.

Syria's representative at the UN, Faisal Miqdad, addressed two messages to each of Annan and the Security Council in which he explained the recent measures taken by the occupation authorities in the occupied Golan, represented in " confiscating Waqf ( Islamic trusts ) lands in Masa'da village of an area of 354 dunnums." Al-Miqdad indicated that this aggressive escalation comes after the Israeli government had ratified recently the establishment of nine new settlements and building 900 new houses and allotting necessary sums to implement a plan set by the current Israeli government to double number of Israeli settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan and expand the standing Israeli settlements."

Al-Miqdad said "peace is in contradiction with occupation and with any steps to fix occupation instead of eliminating it according to the land for peace principle." Al-Miqdad appealed to Annan and the Security Council to "take all necessary measure to control Israel and deter it from continuing these practices which threaten to escalate the already tense situation in the region and in contradiction with any sincere efforts to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle east."