In February 2015, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Proso met with the UNDOF commander, Colonel Purna Chandra Thapa, and requested a return to positions on the Syrian side instead of sitting on the fence on the Israeli side. The request was not granted. Now the UN‘s decision to renew its deployment in the Syrian Golan Heights joins the ceasefire arrangements announced in Syria, as part of the political processes that are crystallizing in Geneva.