Earlier, US President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that now was the time for the US to recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel. According to him, the time has come to take such a step in the interests of the security of Israel and the region as a whole.
“The Golan is a territory occupied by Israel since 1967. France does not recognise the Israeli annexation of 1981,” the Fench Foreign Ministry said in a daily briefing, adding that UN Security Council resolutions had recognised the annexation as illegal.
Earlier in the day, the European Union stressed that it does not recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.