Austria still open to sending peacekeepers back to Golan
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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.
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." Regarding the timing of the withdrawal itself, he said: "If it takes six weeks, fine. But if no one is found, I don't see why we shouldn't leave earlier." (Reuters)
