Syria’s readmission does not mean resumption of ties with member states: Arab League
ISTANBUL (AA): Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has said that Syria’s readmission does not mean the resumption of relations between Damascus and league members.
On May 7, the Cairo-based Arab League reinstated Syria after 12 years of suspension over the regime’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
“The decision to reinstate Syria does not mean the resumption of ties between all Arab countries and Syria. It’s up to each country to decide according to its vision,” Aboul Gheit told the Saudi-run Al Arabiya television.
He added that Syria’s readmission “was an Arab effort to facilitate the process of resolving the Syrian crisis.”
“Syria accepted that its return to the Arab League is part of the solution of its crisis,” he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Qatar said that it will not buck Arab consensus on Syria’s readmission into the pan-Arab body.
Qatar has been a vocal critic of the Bashar al-Assad regime since the outbreak of the country’s civil war in 2011.
Last month, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said that Qatar’s boycott of the Syrian regime remains in place.
Al-Assad is to attend the Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday (today).
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