Arab foreign ministers approve Syria’s return to Arab League
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Arab foreign ministers approved Syria’s return to the Arab League (LAS), transmits Alsumaria News with reference to the statement of the official representative of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Ahmed al-Sahaf.
On May 7, Arab foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in Cairo to decide on Syria’s return to the Arab League.
“The Arab foreign ministers have agreed to return Syria to its place in the Arab League,” an Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement.
Damascus’s membership in the organization was suspended with the start of the civil war in the country in 2011, which killed more than 500,000 people, and about half of the country’s pre-war population fled their homes (5.6 million fled the country, 6.6 million became internally displaced persons according to the UN).
On April 12, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan met with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad. As a result of the talks, the parties agreed to soon resume diplomatic relations, which were interrupted after the outbreak of the civil war, as well as to restart flights between the two states.
On May 1, following a meeting in Amman (the capital of Jordan), the foreign ministers of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria called for a political solution to the Syrian crisis, in which all foreign forces illegally present there will leave the country.
The final decision on the resumption of Syria’s membership in the Arab League will be made at the organization’s summit on May 19, Al Jazeera reported in mid-April.
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