Syria Sees Israeli Talks Offer Useless Without Golan

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From Swissinfo.ch:

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said Friday resuming peace talks with Israel would be useless without a commitment by the Jewish state to withdraw from the Golan Heights.

Responding cautiously to an Israeli offer to open the talks without preconditions, Moualem reiterated Syrian calls for an Israeli commitment to restore the Golan and described it as "not a precondition but a requirement for peace."

"If Israel does not honour these requirements then there is no point of conducting useless negotiations," Moualem said.

"Negotiations will be futile if there is no true Israeli will to make peace and no U.S. involvement. We will not go back to wasting time," he told Syrian state television

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My Comment: The Syrians have a point .... what is the point of talking.