Baladi News - Agencies
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that UN, Israel and Syria have agreed to reopen the Quneitra crossing in the Golan Heights on Monday.
“The opening will allow UN peacekeepers to step up their efforts to prevent hostilities in the Golan Heights region,” Haley said.
“We look to both Israel and Syria to provide UN peacekeepers the access they need as well as assurances of their safety. We also call on Syria to take the necessary steps so UNDOF can safely and effectively deploy and patrol without interference,” she added.
The Israeli Defense Minister, "Avigdor Lieberman," said during an inspection visit to the Quneitra crossing between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights, "Israel" is ready to reopen the crossing of the Golan, which was closed after the beginning of the Syrian revolution.
It's noteworthy that the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has been monitoring operations in a demilitarised zone established in 1974 between the Israeli-occupied Golan and the Syrian sector, but the peacekeeping mission was disrupted by the Syrian revolution.
Source: Reuters