{"id":37427,"date":"2019-03-26T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37427"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:25:04","slug":"us-approves-3-8-billion-f-16-sale-to-morocco-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37427","title":{"rendered":"US approves $3.8 billion F-16 sale to Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"85\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: Saudi Arabia joined Arab states on Monday in condemning a decision by the United States to\u00a0recognize the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory.<\/p>\n<p>\nBreaking decades of international consensus, US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation at the White House on Monday recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the border area that Israel seized from Syria in 1967.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nSaudi Arabia\u00a0firmly rejected the decision and affirmed its position that Golan Heights was occupied Syrian Arab land in accordance with the relevant international resolutions, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe declaration, made by the US, is a clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US decision was a violation of Security Council resolutions 242 of 1967 and 497 of 1981, and would have devastating implications on the peace process in the Middle East, as well as security and stability in the region, Saudi Arabia\u2019s official statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\nSaudi Arabia called on all parties to respect the decisions of international legitimacy and the charter of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile,\u00a0the Arab League Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said that the decision \u201cdoes not change the area\u2019s status\u201d as illegally occupied territory,<\/p>\n<p>\nSyria said the decision was a blatant attack on its sovereignty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cTrump does not have the right or the legal authority to legitimize the occupation,\u201d a foreign ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>\nOpposition chief Nasr Al-Hariri said Trump\u2019s decision would \u201clead to more violence and instability, and it will have negative effects on efforts to engineer peace in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nLebanon said the move \u201cviolates all the rules of international law\u201d and \u201cundermines any effort to reach a just peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Golan Heights are Syrian Arab land, no decision can change this, and no country can revisit history by transferring ownership of land from one country to another,\u201d the Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia joined Arab states on Monday in condemning a decision by the United States to\u00a0recognize the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Breaking decades of international consensus, US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation at the White House on Monday recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the border area that Israel seized from Syria in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}