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Austria still open to sending peacekeepers back to Golan

By REUTERS

JUNE 10, 2013 00:22

VIENNA- Austria does not rule out returning its UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights if their mandate is improved, its foreign minister told Sunday's newspaper Oesterreich.

The Alpine republic, whose peacekeepers account for 380 of the 1,000 members of a UN force monitoring a 40-year-old ceasefire between Syria and Israel, said on Thursday it would pull them out after battles between Syrian troops and rebels.

Asked whether the peacekeepers should be better armed, Michael Spindelegger told the paper: "Something in the mandate will have to change. Regardless of who follows us, they should have it better than we did ... A return to the Golan isn't ruled out, if the conditions change." In addition to the increased fighting in the force's zone of operation, there have been several recent incidents in which Syrian rebel forces have detained UN monitors.

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