Syria requests UN Security Council meeting on Golan

Syria has called on the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognise the Golan heights as Israeli territory.

President Donald Trump’s signed a proclamation in which the United States recognised Israel’s annexation of the strategic plateau despite UN resolutions recognising the Golan as Israeli occupied territory.

Israel occupied the Golan heights from Syria during the 1967 Arab Israeli war and continues to occupy roughly two thirds of the wider Golan height region as a direct result of the conflict.