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Article: Israeli officials deny full withdrawal from Golan: report
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 21, 2008
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Israeli officials deny full withdrawal from Golan: report
JERUSALEM, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Israeli officials on Wednesday
dismissed a statement by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem that
Israel has promised to withdraw from the Golan Heights to the
borders drawn before the 1967 Six Day War, local daily the Jerusalem
Post reported.
Shortly after Israel, Syria and Turkey confirmed the existence of
Ankara-mediated peace talks, Moallem said Damascus has received
Israel's commitment for a withdrawal from the highland to the June
4, 1967 line.
However, Israeli officials in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ...