| Mr.Farouk Al-Shara' Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Reopublic sent a message to the Security Counsil about Ghajar Syrian village at 21 February 2001 |
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| The question of the partition of the Syrian village of Ghajar in the occupied Syrian Golan has continued to be great popular concern in the Syrian Arab Republic, in as much as the Israeli occupation authorities have recently begun to bring the greatest pressure to bear on the inhabitants of the village for the construction of a barbed- wire fence along the Blue line that was drawn by the United Nations and that had the result of dividing the village. The inhabitants of the village, our citizen. are resisting this pressure and the reject the building of any barbed-wire fence that divides their village regardless of the reasons given. The village of Ghajar is a sensitive issue and something more than a humanitarian one. The inhabitants of the village have staed unequivocally that they were born as Syrian and that they will remain Syrian in all circumstance. They are single family and their fields lie around the village. they cannot consent to the partition of their village and only wish to live together in harmony, concord and unity. We raised this matter with you at our meeting in Damasscus on June 2000, and you promised to hold the necessary consultation in the regard. In our view. the United Nation must preserve the unity of Ghajar. given that it is an occupied Syrian village. no forces must enter it other than United Nation forces, and it should remain under the control of United Nation forces, as an interim solution, pending Israel's implementation of Security Council resolution 242 ( 1967 ) and the evacuation of the Israeli occupation forces from the occupied Syrian Golan and their withdrawal to the line of 4 June 1967. We hopeand trust that the matter will receive your full attention and that you will make every effort in its regard in the context of your endeavours for a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East region ( Signed ) Mr Farouk Al-Shara' Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic Damasscs, 21 February 2001 |
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| Mr .president Dr.Bashar Assad |
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