The European Union will sign a partnership deal with Syria later this month, a diplomatic source told AFP Thursday, after refraining from doing so for years over human rights concerns.
A senior Israeli source later voiced displeasure with the report, saying: "Israel does not like this, and we have sent messages opposing it to the Europeans."
While longtime enemies Israel and Syria held indirect peace negotiations under former prime minister Ehud Olmert, the talks broke down last year and have not been renewed since.
"The Israeli claim was that even if this deal is far from what Israel has with the European Union, this step is not in line with the European Union's policy on the subject of human rights," the source added. "This is a double message - with a country like Syria they further relations, but with Israel they freeze the upgrade."
He was referring to the freezing of a planned upgrade of relations between Israel and the EU earlier this year.
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