NEW YORK — Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said ahead of a historic speech before the U.N. General Assembly that Israel is stalling on moving forward with a peace agreement between the two countries.

Al-Sharaa’s remarks late Tuesday signaled a departure from statements he made only 24 hours earlier when he claimed Syria had reached “advanced stages” of talks with Israel for some type of security agreement.

“There are multiple risks, which is – Israel is stalling all these negotiations and insisting on violating our airspace and incursion in our territories,” al-Sharaa said on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, speaking through a translator in a closed-door discussion hosted by the Middle East Institute (MEI) in New York.

“We said that Syria is........

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