Syria <b>has</b> asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Monday in which the United States recognized Israel's annexation of the strategic plateau, despite UN resolutions that call for Israel's withdrawal from the Golan. In a letter, the Syrian mission to the United Nations asked the council presidency, held by France, to schedule an urgent meeting to discuss the situation.<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Three UN Security Council resolutions call on Israel to withdraw from the Golan, which it seized from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed in 1981, in a move that was never recognized internationally.</span><br />