Sep 07, 2007
CAPITALS, ( SANA )_ Arab League condemned the Israeli aircrafts infiltration into Syrian airspace, emphasizing that these actions reflect Israel's negative intentions towards the talk about peace in the Middle East.
Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa urged the Quartet Committee
and the international community to deal seriously with this Israeli violation and the negative repercussions that may result from this act and affect on the interests and security of the region and on the efforts exerted regionally and internationally to revive the peace process.
For its part, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry stressed that the Israeli assault
will increase tension in the region and Israel bears its responsible at a time that there must be a commitment to peace to reach to a political and peaceful settlement to the existing problems and not waving of the military force.
This came in a statement by spokesman of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, who confirmed that his country closely follows the Israeli aircrafts assault on the Syrian airspace yesterday.
In France, assistant spokesman of the French Foreign Ministry called to avoid any action that could raise tension in the region, affirming that France adheres to a comprehensive peace in the region.
For his part, Chairman of French-Arab Solidarity Association Lucien Peterlien
strongly condemned the Israeli planes to violate the Syrian airspace.
He said in a statement that this action comes within the framework of Israeli provocations of the Arab states.
" This penetration of the Syrian airspace in light of a tense atmosphere includes the entire region must raise strong query by great powers , where they could not stay careless about these threats that generate violence." Peterlien indicated.
In Tehran, Iran condemned violation of the Syrian airspace by Zionist entity aircrafts.
Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Muhammad Ali Hosseini said that Israel's aim of this impudent and provocative work is transportation of crisis
and the internal problems that face Israel to the neighboring countries and spreading a case of insecurity and chaos in the region in addition to misleading the public opinion regarding results of its defeat in the war on Lebanon in July last year.
In Beirut, President Emil Lahoud of Lebanon said that the Israeli aggressive act carried out by the Israeli aircrafts is an evidence on continuation of the Israeli aggressive direction.
He asked the international community to intervene and put an end to the hostile Israeli practices and to launch the just and comprehensive peace process in the region.
In Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan expressed his country's concern about infiltration of the Israeli aircrafts into the Syrian airspace.
In a press statement today in Eisenboga airport before leaving to Portugal, the Minister said that such incidents cause further tension in such a critical period the region is passing through.
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