Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Friday that Damascus is prepared to work with the United States to reinstate the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, according to a statement carried by state media and several regional outlets. The pact, signed after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, established a UN-monitored buffer zone on the Golan Heights and set cease-fire lines between Syrian and Israeli forces. Al-Shaibani outlined the proposal during a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the ministry said, adding that Syria "aspires to cooperate with the United States" on restoring the accord’s security arrangements. Syria and Israel remain technically at war and have not held direct peace talks in more than a decade. Reactivating the 1974 agreement would require coordination with the UN Disengagement Observer Force, which has supervised the zone for five decades. If pursued, the move would mark the most substantive security dialogue involving Damascus, Washington and Jerusalem on the Golan Heights issue in years.