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© REUTERS/ Denis BalibouseSyrian ambassador to the UN Bashar Jaafari

Comment: The Jaish al-Islam cretin Alloush needs no help exposing the Saudi-backed "Syrian opposition" as a bag of bandits and lunatics. (These are the guys that paraded Alawite civilians in cages to use as human shields in Eastern Ghouta...) In stark contrast, Syria's request is eminently reasonable: the return of the Golan Heights from arch-bandit-nation Israel.


A threat made by one of the representatives of the Riyadh-formed Syrian opposition to kill President Bashar Assad violates a number of UN Security Council resolutions, head of Damascus delegation to Geneva talks on the Syrian settlement Bashar Jaafari told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"Yesterday, the person who represents Jaysh al-Islam made an irresponsible statement in which he threatened to kill the president of Syria. He was inciting to commit a terrorist act. This is a violation of the SC resolution 2253, 2299, 2278, 1989, 1924," Jaafari said.

On Tuesday, Mohammed Alloush, a member of Jaysh al-Islam, which is part of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) opposition group, made a statement in which he threatened to kill the Syrian leader.

The Syrian government delegation calls for the liberation of occupied Syrian territories, including the Golan Heights, delegation leader Bashar Jaafari told Sputnik on Wednesday, disclosing proposals on the political settlement.

Jaafari, who submitted the proposals to Special UN Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, requested the envoy to discuss these proposals with opposition members involved in intra-Syrian negotiations underway in Geneva.

"Another point [of the Basic Proposals] is that we call through the Special Envoy on all of us, the government's delegation and delegations of the oppositions, to engage into a clear-cut commitment to liberating our occupied territories — the Syrian occupied Golan [Heights], back to the borders of June 1967," Jaafari said.