(18 Apr 2016) A Syrian government envoy to peace talks in Geneva on Monday said that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s decision to host a Cabinet meeting in the Golan on Sunday.
Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in 1981.
Netanyahu said on Sunday that the international community should recognise that "the Golan will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty."
Syria’s Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari also criticised comments from rebel fighters that he claimed had called for a "revocation of the cessation of hostilities."
Rebel groups announced earlier that the attacks in Latakia province, a government stronghold, were in retaliation for violations of a fragile ceasefire that began in late February.
At the end of his speech Ja’afari spoke also about the peace talks, saying unspecified new "ideas" were floated in his latest meeting with a UN mediator.
Ja’afari said he would next meet UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura on Wednesday.
De Mistura was meeting with the Syrian opposition later on Monday.
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