United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping soldiers from Austria drive past an observation tower near the Quneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria, on Israeli-occupied Golan Heights June 12, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria may withdraw its peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights more slowly than first planned to allow the United Nations extra time to arrange an orderly handover, Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said on Tuesday.
The United Nations has asked Vienna to keep soldiers in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel until the end of July, a month longer than the four-week timetable Austria gave when it announced on June 6 it was recalling its forces.
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