Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov responded to Bibi Netanyahu’s announcement on Dec. 15, that the Israeli cabinet had approved a plan to expand the Jewish population in the illegally occupied Golan Heights, and “settle” them in the Golan Heights indefinitely. “I would like to warn certain ‘hotheads’ in West Jerusalem against being intoxicated by opportunities,” Ryabkov said, stressing that “the annexation of the Golan Heights, which many are talking about now, is absolutely unacceptable.”
He called on Israel to return to full implementation of the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria, under which a buffer zone was established in the Golan Heights.
