Syria complained here today in a letter to the Security Council and the General Assembly against what it called a “flagrant violation” by Israel “of the elementary norms of international law and civilized behavior and of scores of United Nations resolutions” by allegedly planning to colonize the occupied Golan Heights. The letter described the heights as “Syrian territory.”
According to the Syrian Ambassador to the UN, George Tomeh, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency carried a Jerusalem report on Jan. 13 under a headline “Jewish Agency Plans 22 Additional Golan Heights Settlements, Bringing Total to 32.” Through such a plan, the envoy declared, ‘the Israeli occupying authorities have recently decided to intensify and widen further the scope of their predatory designs in the Syrian occupied territories.” The letter cited an entry in the American Jewish Yearbook allegedly showing that the Jewish Agency was interested in “development and colonization.” Mr. Tomeh asked in his letter that “the necessary steps be promptly taken to ensure the inviolability of the Syrian territory and of the liquidation of the consequences of Israeli aggression.”
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