Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a change in the status of the Golan Heights would be a direct violation of United Nations decisions, RIA news agency said in a report citing ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
She was commenting on a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump, who tweeted on Thursday it was time to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in 1967.
In a separate statement, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that U.S. President Donald Trump's call to recognize Israel's control of the occupied Golan Heights could destabilize the situation in the Middle East.
"In any case, such an idea itself in no way contributes to the goals and objectives of the Middle East settlement, rather on the contrary. So far it is nothing but a call, let's hope that it will remain a call," he told reporters in Moscow.
