61.   Syria has made the return of the strategic plateau a condition for peace.

62.   Syria has said it will not consider any peace proposal without an Israeli commitment to return the strategic plateau.

63.   Syria wants Israel to declare readiness to return all of the strategic plateau before continuing negotiations.

64.   Syria wants the entire strategic plateau in exchange for peace.

65.   Syria wants the strategic plateau back in exchange for a peace agreement, but Netanyahu has said Israel should retain control over the land.

66.   Syria wants the strategic plateau back in exchange for a peace agreement.

67.   Syria, in five years of on-and-off peace talks with Israel, has insisted it should have the strategic plateau back.

68.   Syrian officials were frustrated that the negotiations had not met their territorial demands -- a promised pullback by Israel from all the strategic borderline plateau.

69.   Syria also will not agree to cut its forces in a stretch between that strategic plateau and the Syrian capital, Abdul-Halim Khaddam said.

70.   Syria demands the return of the strategic plateau in exchange for a full peace treaty.