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UN, US ask Filipinos not to leave Golan Heights

Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario gestures during a news conference Wednesday June 19, 2013 in Manila, Philippines where he talked about three big issues involving the Philippines that included the presence of the Philippine contingent to the UN peacekeeping forces at the Golan Heights. Del Rosario said the Philippines still is committed to keep the Philippine peacekeepers until August 3, 2013 and subject to "conditionalities" beyond the period.

The United Nations and the U.S. have separately asked the Philippines not to withdraw its more than 300 peacekeepers from the Golan Heights, warning of "maximum volatility" in the region after several other countries decided to pull out their peacekeeping...

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