By KUNA,
Gaza : Turkey is seeking to hold direct negotiations between Israel and Syria in the future, especially after they have both agreed on the general guidelines of the negotiations to sign a peace agreement, the Israeli press reported Wednesday.
“We expect the next discussions between Israel and Syria to be direct, with military personnels from both sides taking part in order to set up security arrangements and a future buffer-zone between them,” the Haaretz newspaper said today, citing an informed Turkish official.
The unnamed official further said that “the Syrians and the Israelis cannot expect to go on for long in these indirect negotiations, where Turkey is operating as a ‘mobile phone’.” He added “there is a need now for direct negotiations and it would be silly for us to start carrying maps from one room to another to help both sides agree when we could start discussing the issue of normalizing Syrian-Israeli relations.”