The Secretary General of the Arab League denounced Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad’s attack against the Arab group and said in a TV interview that he expressed his discomfort in a phone interview with the Syrian foreign ministry.
Nabil al-Arabi, in an interview with the Egypt-based Hayat TV channel, said while there is no “magic wand” to solve the Syrian crisis, sanctions and other pressuring factors may force the Assad regime to succumb and halt violence against protesters and dissidents.
“Syria does not spur incentives for other countries that sell weapons to intervene. It does not have oil.” There is also U.S. elections, therefore I do not think they [Americans] are interested in entering a military adventure in Syria.”
He also said the U.N. Security Council would have intervened in Syria with or without the Arab League and that the Arab ministerial council is not the decisive factor in bringing foreign forces into Syria.
Citing worrisome reports from the Arab mission, the League’s chief said that the Arab mission cannot be fulfilled in the way expected because the crisis has became more complicated.
Meanwhile, The Arab League on Thursday said that it might stop sending observers to Syria after an attack on Monday against its mission team in the Mediterranean city of Latakiya.
Sources, who insisted on anonymity, told Al Arabiya that the “Arab League won’t send any more of its observers to Syria until situation is suitable for the observers to return."
The three observers, two Kuwaitis and one UAE national, were injured during the attack.
Nabil al-Arabi, in an interview with the Egypt-based Hayat TV channel, said while there is no “magic wand” to solve the Syrian crisis, sanctions and other pressuring factors may force the Assad regime to succumb and halt violence against protesters and dissidents.
“Syria does not spur incentives for other countries that sell weapons to intervene. It does not have oil.” There is also U.S. elections, therefore I do not think they [Americans] are interested in entering a military adventure in Syria.”
He also said the U.N. Security Council would have intervened in Syria with or without the Arab League and that the Arab ministerial council is not the decisive factor in bringing foreign forces into Syria.
Citing worrisome reports from the Arab mission, the League’s chief said that the Arab mission cannot be fulfilled in the way expected because the crisis has became more complicated.
Meanwhile, The Arab League on Thursday said that it might stop sending observers to Syria after an attack on Monday against its mission team in the Mediterranean city of Latakiya.
Sources, who insisted on anonymity, told Al Arabiya that the “Arab League won’t send any more of its observers to Syria until situation is suitable for the observers to return."
The three observers, two Kuwaitis and one UAE national, were injured during the attack.
Journalists in Syria
World powers are demanding journalists in Syria be protected following the death of a French reporter in a rocket attack hours after al-Assad vowed to defeat a “conspiracy” against his regime.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Syrian and foreign activists were making a bid on Thursday to cross into Syria from Turkey and Jordan to take humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.
“Our aim is ... to deliver humanitarian aid to the families in the afflicted areas that suffer from daily brutal bombing and totally unacceptable living conditions," the “Freedom Convoy” said in a statement on its website.
And Human Rights Watch accused Assad’s troops of “making a mockery” of Arab League observers, whose mission to monitor Syria’s implementation of a peace deal has come under criticism for being ineffective.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Syrian and foreign activists were making a bid on Thursday to cross into Syria from Turkey and Jordan to take humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.
“Our aim is ... to deliver humanitarian aid to the families in the afflicted areas that suffer from daily brutal bombing and totally unacceptable living conditions," the “Freedom Convoy” said in a statement on its website.
And Human Rights Watch accused Assad’s troops of “making a mockery” of Arab League observers, whose mission to monitor Syria’s implementation of a peace deal has come under criticism for being ineffective.
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