The Syrian Foreign Minister said today that his country is ready to work with the US to return to the 1974 release agreement with Israel, which created a demilitarized seat belt in Golan Heights.

“Syria aspires to work with the US to return to the 1974 release agreement,” Syrian Foreign Minister Assad Al-Saibani said in a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Marco Rubio, according to a statement by the Syrian Foreign Minister.

Syrian and US foreign ministers also discussed “recurring Israeli aggression against southern Syria,” the statement added.

Israel and Syria, where an Islamist coalition seized power in December, remain in a state of war, and the Israeli army has held hundreds of attacks on the neighboring country in recent months.

US envoy to Syria, Tom Barack, said in an interview with the New York Times published yesterday Thursday that Syria and Israel are conducting “substantive” talks with the US mediation aimed at restoring their tranquility.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday that his country is “interested” in establishing relations with neighboring Syria and Lebanon. He stressed, however, that Israel has no intention of returning the Syrian Golan Heights section of Golan in 1967 and annexed in 1981.

Syria, who has admitted to having indirect talks with Israel to reduce tensions, replied that any discussions about the signing of a peace agreement with Israel are “premature”.

Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad last December, after more than 13 years of civil war, Israel sent military forces to the demilitarized seat belt in Golan’s high-rankings and invaded Syrian territory.

A section of this highs was partly conquered by Israel in the Six Day War in June 1967, and an additional area of ​​about 510 square kilometers was occupied by Israel during the Yom Kipur War in October 1973. km.

The UN power to supervise the UNDOF is responsible for monitoring compliance with this agreement.