The heads of diplomacy of the Arab League countries agreed on Sunday to reintegrate Syria into the organization, after 12 years of suspension for the repression of protests that threatened to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a source announced. diplomat.
“The meeting of Arab foreign ministers agreed on the return of Syria to its place in the Arab League,” said the spokesman for the Iraqi ministry, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, quoted by the Iraqi news agency INA.
Arab reconciliation with Syria, pushed mainly by Riyadh, has been on the table, especially after Saudi Arabia and Iran, a close ally of al-Assad, normalized relations in early March.
“We have a historic responsibility to stand by the side of the Syrian people to help them turn the sad page of their history,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh said at the opening session of the Arab League emergency meeting in El Cairo Shukri, who added that the Syrian government “has a responsibility to find a political solution.”
The Arab League’s final communique is expected to include the conditions set out for Syria’s return to the pan-Arab organization.
Among the expected conditions are the return of the refugees to Syria, the revelation of the fate of the disappeared and the reactivation of the committee, with the participation of representatives of the UN and the opposition, to draft a new constitution, a process suspended for years. .
Syria’s membership in the pan-Arab organization was suspended following the brutal crackdown with which the Al-Assad government responded to the 2011 popular uprisings against the regime, which subsequently led to armed conflict.
The same reason led many countries in the region to cut or cool their relations with Damascus, but several of them apparently are on the way to rapprochement since the earthquakes that struck Syria in February.
The main obstacle to the return of Syria has been Qatar, one of the main supporters of the Syrian opposition.
Source: TSF
