Syria wants to pursue a US-backed security agreement with Israel but will not accept the occupation of its territory, Damascus\u2019 UN Envoy Ibrahim Olabi said on Thursday, accusing Israel of undermining diplomatic efforts with military incursions and airstrikes.<\/p>\n
Olabi told the UN Security Council that Syria had chosen dialogue and mediation to avoid further regional escalation, while Israel had responded with attacks and incursions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael penetrated our villages, displaced our people, bombed our facilities while we chose to spare the region further suffering,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to follow diplomatic solutions and a US-sponsored security agreement, as we have demonstrated through actions, not words. However, this in no way means accepting the occupation or relinquishing the rights of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olabi said Syria had returned to the international community with a focus on rebuilding state institutions, integrating military forces, combating Daesh and other militant groups, dismantling drug-smuggling networks and strengthening ties with neighboring countries.<\/p>\n
But he said Israel\u2019s actions had forced him to focus his address on the threat to Syria\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n
He accused Israel of \u201cigniting tensions and unrest,\u201d and killing Syrians, while also obstructing international efforts to address the legacy of the former regime\u2019s chemical weapons and nuclear materials.<\/p>\n
Olabi said Syria had demonstrated its commitment to diplomacy through its actions and urged the region to seize what he described as a \u201cgolden opportunity\u201d to pursue \u201cstability and development, not war and aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also described Syria as an \u201cindispensable partner\u201d in securing regional stability, while accusing Israel of posing the greatest threat to security in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria wants to pursue a US-backed security agreement with Israel but will not accept the occupation of its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,4713],"class_list":["post-620773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}