The State of Qatar has rejected a US recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights after Donald Trump signed a presidential decree that raised international condemnation.
"Doha reaffirms its principled position that the Golan Heights are occupied Arab land," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Monday.
The statement added that "helping the Israeli occupation to disdain UN resolutions related to the occupied Golan Heights, especially Security Council resolution 497 (1981), will not change the fact that the plateau is occupied Arab land and that Israel's imposition of its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Golan is null and void and without any trace legal".
The statement stressed "the need to comply with the Israeli occupation resolutions of international legitimacy to withdraw from all occupied Arab territories, including the Golan."
It also stated that "any unilateral decisions to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan will constitute a major obstacle to the peace desired in the region."
Earlier in the day, Trump officially signed in the White House, in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a presidential decree recognizing Israel's "sovereignty" over the occupied Golan.
Israel occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967, and in 1981 the Knesset passed a law to annex it to Israel, but the international community still treats the region as occupied Syrian territory.
The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said: "This is a false declaration in form and substance. It reflects a situation of defiance of international law in a spirit and a text that undermines the status of the United States in the region. the world".