Foreign ministers of the Arab League today approved the readmission of Syria after more than 10 years of suspension of its participation in the pan-Arab organization, as the representative of the League said.
The decision was made at a closed-door meeting of Arab foreign ministers at the Arab League’s headquarters in Cairo, said Gamal Rosdi, spokesman for the Arab League’s general secretariat.
Syria’s membership in the Arab League was suspended in 2011 after a bloody crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad led to a devastating civil war and many Arab countries withdrew their ambassadors from Damascus.
Recently, several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have renewed engagement with Syria through high-level visits and meetings, although some, such as Qatar, remain opposed to full normalization of relations without a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Arab countries are trying to reach a consensus on whether to invite Assad to the May 19 Arab League summit in Riyadh to discuss the pace of normalization of relations and under what conditions Syria could be allowed to return.
Source: Reuters, AFP, APE-MPE.
Source: Kathimerini
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