Syria joined the Palestine Liberation Organization in a drive to bring the issue of violence on the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the U.N. Security Council, state-run media said today.
The newspaper Al Baath said the decision was part of Syria’s ‘continued drive against the Zionist-American schemes.’
The decision was taken Sunday after a lengthy meeting between Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the PLO political department, Al Baath and the newspaper An Nahar, published in Beirut, Lebanon, said.
Khaddam and Kaddoumi discussed ‘the dangerous situation in the West bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, and agreed to call for an immediate meeting of the U.N. Security Council,’ the newspapers said quoting Syrian government sources.
The sources said the Damascus government was instructing its permanant delegation at the United Nations to make an official request for a Security Council debate on the occupied West Bank disturbances.
The decision coincided with a call by the Syrian People’s Council (parliament) for Arab states to join in an ‘economic boycott of the United States and its agents in Europe for their unlimited support of the Zionist enemy.’
