Syria demands Israel pullout from occupied Golan Heights buffer zone: State media
Syria's new authority demanded, during talks with UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix on Wednesday, Israel's withdrawal from Syrian territory it occupied in the Golan Heights following the ousting of former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad in December.
The SANA news agency said that during Lacroix's meeting with Syria's foreign and defence ministers, "it was confirmed that Syria is ready to fully cooperate with the UN."
Syria is also ready to redeploy forces to the Golan in line with a 1974 agreement establishing a buffer zone "provided Israeli forces withdraw immediately," SANA added.
On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz visited the Syrian summit of Jabal al-Sheikh, currently occupied by Israeli forces, and said Israel will remain there and in the buffer zone for an "unlimited time."
Katz claimed Israel must stay in the zone to ensure "hostile forces" will not gain a foothold on the Israeli border nor anywhere within 50 kilometres (30 miles) beyond the zone, citing security for Israeli residents in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
For decades, the Syrian-Israeli border remained largely quiet under a 1974 agreement that established a UN-patrolled demilitarized buffer zone after the 1973 Mideast war.
But after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ouster, Israeli forces occupied the 400-square-kilometre (155-square mile) buffer zone.
It also occupied several sites in southern Syria.
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