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11/12/2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo this weekend after the cancellation of the Doha meeting
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Iraq yesterday urged the Syrian regime to accept the Arab initiative to resolve Syrian crisis, said Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi Foreign Minister, said that the asylum of the Arab League to Iraq to ease the Syrian crisis came after the arrival of the initiative of the university to the «dead end», stressing that Iraq will try to persuade the Syrian leadership to accept the initiative before it is too late, because the alternative would be the internationalization of the crisis. Zebari and encouraged the Syrian leadership to accept and implement the Arab initiative, saying that «such action would be useful to the Syrians, and especially with the lack of crystallization of the international position, otherwise the beginning of next year will be decisive for the issue of the Syrian». Zebari said in an interview with television channel «Iraq» official «Arab initiative toward Syria and reached a dead end ... And to the extent of the final ». visited the noble Arab, Secretary General of the Arab League, Iraq on Thursday and met with Prime Minister and Iraqi leaders. He said the Arab that his visit is to discuss the possibility that the Iraqi government to invest its relations with Syria to support the success of the Arab League initiative. Zebari said in an interview that Iraq has good relations with the Syrian leadership and contacts with the Syrian opposition parties to help him play such a role. He pointed out that Iraq will «contacts real» with the opposition to get them to accept the peace agreement will lead to solving the Syrian crisis, he said that Iraq will try to persuade the Syrian leadership the need to end violence and begin procedures reforms. and refused Zebari label the opposition forces that Iraq had contacts with them, but he said It's from home and abroad, and it «real leaders». The «contacts exist, but we Snnfath out more ... Their responses and positive ». Iraq had reservation on the economic sanctions imposed on Syria, the Arab League recently. Voice of Iraq and also against the University's decision to suspend participation in the meetings of the Syrian University. Include the Arab peace plan to send observers to the Arabs of Syria, and the withdrawal of government troops from the cities, although Zebari to confirm that the situation in Syria «dangerous», he said that the opportunity to resolve the crisis peacefully in Syria remain. Zebari said that the Syrian leadership to exploit the non-crystallized so far west of the position and accept the Arab initiative «because the alternative would be internationalization». Predicted Zebari to be «the beginning of next year's crucial» of the crisis in Syria. He added that is required of the Friends of Syria is explaining to the Syrians that «the implementation of this initiative in the interest of Syria and its people and that the alternative is internationalization, and the alternative is to exit the file outside of the University Corporation .. This development is not in the interest of a ... No Arab countries, Syria ». He pointed out that Iraq will «encourage the Syrian government not to miss this opportunity». The newspaper «morning» issued by the official in Baghdad yesterday, said that the delegation of Iraqi mediators who will travel to Damascus «granting full powers» by the Arab League. A source at the Foreign Ministry told «Reuters», on condition of anonymity, said the delegation will travel «very close to Damascus, and that includes officials, diplomats, senior». The Arab League has canceled yesterday a meeting of Arab foreign ministers, which was supposed to take place yesterday in the Doha to discuss the crisis in Syria. A diplomatic source in Cairo, the Arabs are proposed at the same time holding the meeting in the sixteenth or seventeenth of this month at the League headquarters in Cairo. An official source at the Arab League, is scheduled for an urgent meeting of the Arab ministerial committee on the crisis and the Syrian Arab League Council at the level of Foreign Ministers of the whole under the chairmanship of Qatar at the end of this week to discuss the latest developments on the Syrian arena. The official, who declined to be named, «The meeting of the Committee will discuss the Arab response to the Syrian position on the contents of a message and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem approve the signing of the Observer Mission University Syria to terms ». The «Secretary-General of the Arab League's response to the speech teacher and assured him clearly that he can not annul decisions taken by the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers must submit the matter to the Council once again to take the decision». The source continued, saying: «Let Syria again in our response to them to sign the agreement Observer Mission». The Syrian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the authorities «examine» the response received from the Arab League to request the lifting of sanctions as a prelude to receive the observers University in Syria. Jihad al-Maqdisi, a spokesman for the ministry, said in a statement «received the Ministry of Foreign Re Excellency the Secretary General is still under study». The Syrian regime announced Monday his willingness to sign a protocol monitors the Arab League who will come to Syria for a field situation and try to end the oppression that says the United Nations that killed more than four thousand people since March 2011. He asked the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem in a letter to the Arab League published on Tuesday canceled the sanctions established by the University on November 27 (November) to sign a protocol of observers. The sanctions include the freezing of Arab commercial transactions with the Syrian government and bank accounts in Arab countries.
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