by Staff Reporter
May 23, 2013 (TSR) – The Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Tuesday reiterated Syria’s right to respond immediately to any breach of its sovereignty and the sanctity of its land, calling upon the UN Security Council to put an end to the Israeli violations.
According to the state news agency, SANA, The Syrian Ministry addressed two identical letters to the President of the Security Council and the UN Secretary General on the Syrian armed forces’ destroying of an Israeli DF vehicle which entered from the occupied territories and crossed the cease-fire line.
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The letters also referred to the incident of firing two rockets by the Israeli enemy from the occupied site of Tal al-Faras toward one of the Syrian sites in al-Zubaydiah village without causing casualties.
“Subsequent to our previous letters addressed to you on the Israeli violations against the Syrian sovereignty and its breach of the Disengagement Agreement, the latest of which was our letter on May 8, 2013, an Israeli vehicle breached the cease-fire line at 1:10 am on May 21, 2013 and headed toward Bir Ajam village that is located in the liberated area of the Golan,” the letters read.
They added that the Syrian armed forces targeted the Israeli vehicle, noting that armed terrorist groups are present in Bir Ajam village, toward which the vehicle was heading.
The letters also mentioned that Israel fired two rockets from Tal al-Faras site in the occupied Syrian Golan toward Syria’s territories.
“Those two incidents constitute a new violation of the UN Charter and the Disengagement Agreement and an aggression against the Syrian sovereignty,” said the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry.
“The Syrian Arab Republic dealt with this violation in the framework of practicing the right to self-defense that is secured by the UN Charter,” the Ministry added, noting that the Syrian government has already drawn the attention of the Security Council’s President and the UN Secretary General to these Israeli violations and Israel’s intervention in the Syrian internal affairs.
The Ministry went on saying that Israel’s intervention has been evident through providing logistic support to the armed terrorist groups, including those operating in the Disengagement zone, and launching attacks on the Syrian territories, stressing that these Israeli practices constitute a violation of the UN Charter.
“While Syria places these facts before the Security Council, it once again reaffirms its right to immediately respond to any violation of its sovereignty and the sanctity of its land, and that lies within the framework of practicing its right to self-defense,” the Ministry said.
It added that Syria “expects the Security Council to put an end to the Israeli violations that breach the UN Charter and the Disengagement Agreement.”
