Syrian vice president, Abdel Halim Khaddam, visiting Iran this weekend, reportedly declined his Iranian hosts’ urgings that Syria refuse to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
Khaddam was quoted as saying that Syria demands a full Israeli withdrawal to the border of June 4 1967, when Israeli captured the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War. Khaddam also demanded balanced and equal security arrangements as well as an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
“Neither side can attain security at the expense of the other,” said the Syrian official, who was accompanied on his weekend visit to Tehran by Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa.
